Matthew Mandelkern
about
I am associate professor of philosophy at NYU, working on language and logic.
I am DUS, an editor at Linguistics and Philosophy and Ergo, and an organizer of the New York Philosophy of Language Workshop.
papers
2026
Sequence and consequence
with Cian Dorr, Philosophical Logic
2025
Representations of what’s possible reflect others’ epistemic states
with Lara Kirfel and Jonathan Phillips, Cognitive Science
2024
Hurford Disjunctions: Beyond Redundancy and Triviality
with Alexandros Kalomoiros, Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, and Florian Schwarz, Sinn und Bedeutung
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
The orthologic of epistemic modals
with Wesley H. Holliday, Journal of Philosophical Logic
Proceedings version
2022
Good guesses
with Kevin Dorst, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Assertion is weak
with Kevin Dorst, Philosophers' Imprint
2021
Roads to necessitarianism
with Daniel Rothschild, Journal of Philosophical Logic
2020
Eavesdropping: What is it good for?
with Jonathan Phillips, Semantics and Pragmatics
Definiteness projection
with Daniel Rothschild,
Natural Language Semantics
What's not to like
with Jacopo Romoli,
Linguistic Inquiry
We've discovered that projection is asymmetric (and it is!)
with Jérémy Zehr, Jacopo Romoli,
and Florian Schwarz,
Linguistics and Philosophy
2019
Against Preservation
with Justin Khoo, Analysis
Independence day?
with Daniel Rothschild,
Journal of Semantics
2018
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
2017
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
2016
A note on the architecture of presupposition
Semantics and Pragmatics