Matthew Mandelkern





philosopher of language at NYU
mandelkern@nyu.edu


director of undergraduate studies

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lecture notes

A 2024 NYU course on ability

A 2024 ESSLLI course on conditionals and decision theory with Melissa Fusco

A 2022 ESSLLI course on conditionals and information sensitivity with David Boylan

A 2017 ESSLLI course on dynamic semantics with Daniel Rothschild
book

Bounded meaning: The dynamics of interpretation, OUP. Preface


handbook chapters

Dynamic semantics for epistemic modality. Cambridge handbook of natural language modality, CUP (t.a.).

Trivalence and anaphora. Handbook of trivalent logics, MIT.

Modals and conditionals. Linguistics meets philosophy, CUP.








articles

The logic of sequences, with Cian Dorr. Manuscript.

Disjunction and possibility. Philosophical Perspectives (t.a.).

Presuppositions project asymmetrically, unless they don't, with Alexandros Kalomoiros, Jacopo Romoli, and Florian Schwarz. Amsterdam Colloquium.

Conditional and modal reasoning in large language models, with Cedegao Zhang and Wesley H. Holliday. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

The conjunction fallacy: Confirmation or relevance?, with WooJin Chung, Kevin Dorst, and Salvador Mascarenhas. Thinking & Reasoning.

Do language models' words refer? with Tal Linzen. Computational Linguistics.

Chance, ability, and control. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

The orthologic of epistemic modals, with Wesley H. Holliday. Journal of Philosophical Logic. Proceedings version

Good guesses, with Kevin Dorst. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

Witnesses. Linguistics and Philosophy. A more recent handout

Assertion is weak, with Kevin Dorst. Philosophers' Imprint.

If p, then p! The Journal of Philosophy. Reprinted in the 2021 Philosopher's Annual.
Proceedings version

Practical Moore sentences. Noûs.

Roads to necessitarianism, with Daniel Rothschild. Journal of Philosophical Logic.

Eavesdropping: What is it good for? with Jonathan Phillips. Semantics and Pragmatics.

A counterexample to modus ponenses. The Journal of Philosophy.

Definiteness projection, with Daniel Rothschild. Natural Language Semantics.

Dynamic non-classicality. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

What's not to like, with Jacopo Romoli. Linguistic Inquiry.

Import-Export and ‘And’. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

How to do things with modals. Mind & Language.

We've discovered that projection is asymmetric (and it is!), with Jérémy Zehr, Jacopo Romoli, and Florian Schwarz. Linguistics and Philosophy.

Talking about worlds. Philosophical Perspectives.

Modality and expressibility. Review of Symbolic Logic.

What ‘must’ adds. Linguistics and Philosophy. Proceedings version

Bounded modality. The Philosophical Review.

Against Preservation, with Justin Khoo. Analysis.

Triviality results and the relationship between logical and natural languages, with Justin Khoo. Mind.

Independence day? with Daniel Rothschild. Journal of Semantics.

The case of the missing ‘If’: Accessibility relations in Stalnaker's theory of conditionals. Semantics and Pragmatics.

Sticky situations: Force and quantifier domains, with Jonathan Phillips. Semantics and Linguistic Theory.

Hurford conditionals, with Jacopo Romoli. Journal of Semantics.

Agentive modals, with Ginger Schultheis and David Boylan. The Philosophical Review.
Proceedings version

Parsing and presuppositions in the calculation of local contexts, with Jacopo Romoli. Semantics and Pragmatics.

Hierarchical structure and local contexts, with Jacopo Romoli. Sinn und Bedeutung.

Dissatisfaction theory. Semantics and Linguistic Theory.

A note on the architecture of presupposition. Semantics and Pragmatics.