Matthew Mandelkern
about
I am associate professor of philosophy at NYU, working
on language, logic, etc.
I am DUS at NYU (FAQs); associate editor at Linguistics and Philosophy; area editor at Ergo; and co-organizer of New York Philosophy of Language Workshop.
I am DUS at NYU (FAQs); associate editor at Linguistics and Philosophy; area editor at Ergo; and co-organizer of New York Philosophy of Language Workshop.
articles
Sequence and consequence, with Cian Dorr.
2026, Philosophical Logic.
Representations of what’s possible reflect others’ epistemic states, with Lara Kirfel and Jonathan Phillips.
2025. Cognitive Science Proceedings.
Hurford Disjunctions: Beyond Redundancy and Triviality, with Alexandros Kalomoiros, Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, and Florian Schwarz.
2024. Sinn und Bedeutung Proceedings.
Presuppositions project asymmetrically, unless they don't, with Alexandros Kalomoiros, Jacopo Romoli, and Florian Schwarz.
2024.
Amsterdam Colloquium Proceedings.
Conditional and modal reasoning in large language models, with Cedegao Zhang and Wesley H. Holliday. 2024.
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Proceedings.
The conjunction fallacy: Confirmation or relevance? with WooJin Chung, Kevin Dorst, and Salvador Mascarenhas.
2024. Thinking & Reasoning.
Do language models' words refer? with Tal Linzen.
2024. Computational Linguistics.
The orthologic of epistemic modals, with Wesley H. Holliday.
2024.
Journal of Philosophical Logic.
Proceedings version
Good guesses, with Kevin Dorst.
2022. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Assertion is weak, with Kevin Dorst.
2022. Philosophers' Imprint.
If p, then p!
2021.
The Journal of Philosophy. Reprinted in the 2021 Philosopher's Annual.
Proceedings version
Practical Moore sentences. 2021. Noûs.
Roads to necessitarianism, with Daniel Rothschild.
2021.
Journal of Philosophical Logic.
Eavesdropping: What is it good for? with Jonathan Phillips.
2020. Semantics and Pragmatics.
Definiteness projection, with Daniel Rothschild.
2020.
Natural Language Semantics.
What's not to like, with Jacopo Romoli.
2020.
Linguistic Inquiry.
We've discovered that projection is asymmetric (and it is!), with Jérémy Zehr, Jacopo Romoli,
and Florian Schwarz. 2020.
Linguistics and Philosophy.
Against Preservation, with Justin Khoo.
2019.
Analysis.
Triviality results and the relationship between logical and natural languages, with Justin Khoo.
2019.
Mind.
Independence day?
with Daniel Rothschild.
2019.
Journal of Semantics.
The case of the missing ‘If’: Accessibility relations in Stalnaker's theory of conditionals.
2018.
Semantics and Pragmatics.
Sticky situations: Force and quantifier domains, with Jonathan Phillips.
2018.
Semantics and Linguistic Theory Proceedings.
Hurford conditionals, with Jacopo Romoli.
2018.
Journal of Semantics.
Agentive modals, with Ginger Schultheis
and David Boylan.
2017.
The Philosophical Review.
Proceedings version
Parsing and presuppositions in the calculation of local contexts,
with Jacopo Romoli.
2017. Semantics and Pragmatics.
Hierarchical structure and local contexts,
with Jacopo Romoli.
2017. Sinn und Bedeutung Proceedings.
A note on the architecture of presupposition.
2016. Semantics and Pragmatics.
book
handbook chapters
Dynamic semantics for epistemic modality.
Cambridge handbook of natural language modality, CUP (t.a.).
Trivalence and anaphora. 2026. Handbook of three-valued logic, MIT.
Modals and conditionals. 2022. Linguistics meets philosophy, CUP.
Trivalence and anaphora. 2026. Handbook of three-valued logic, MIT.
Modals and conditionals. 2022. Linguistics meets philosophy, CUP.
some course pages
attitude ascriptions with Cian Dorr (NYU)
ability (NYU)
conditionals and decision theory with Melissa Fusco (ESSLI)
conditionals and information sensitivity with David Boylan (ESSLI)
dynamic semantics with Daniel Rothschild (ESSLI)
ability (NYU)
conditionals and decision theory with Melissa Fusco (ESSLI)
conditionals and information sensitivity with David Boylan (ESSLI)
dynamic semantics with Daniel Rothschild (ESSLI)