Updates | Malte Willer

Jul 30

Credences for Strict Conditionals

My long-in-the-making attempt at explaining how proponents of a strict analysis of conditionals can make sense of probabilities of...

Mar 7, 2023

On Stojnic's Context and Coherence

My contribution to a book symposium on Una Stojnić's recent Context and Coherence: The Logic and Grammar of Prominence has now appeared...

Nov 16, 2022

On Cariani's The Modal Future

My review of Fabrizio Cariani's recent The Modal Future has now appeared in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews...

May 15, 2022

Counterstance Contingency

My joint paper with Chris Kennedy on how the notion of counterstance contingency can help make us sense of subjectivity in language is...

Feb 12, 2022

On Williamson's Suppose and Tell

My review of Timothy Willimason's recent Suppose and Tell has now appeared in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews...

Aug 6, 2021

Composing Perspectival Content

Sæbø's (2009) classical argument to the conclusion that perspective-sensitive predicates have a distinct semantic type appeals to...

May 26, 2021

Negating Conditionals

I maintain, pace the common narrative in the existing literature, that negated ifs fail to provide good evidence for Conditional Excluded...

Aug 10, 2020

Assertion, Expression, Experience

Chris Kennedy and I came up with an idea for making sense of the acquaintance inference and related phenomena in the language of morals....

Mar 31, 2020

Can in L&P

My "Two Puzzles about Ability Can" is now forthcoming in Linguistics & Philosophy (doi: 10.1007/s10988-020-09296-6). Here is the...

Nov 29, 2019

Lessons in S&P

My "Lessons from Sobel Sequences" is now available in its final glory at Semantics and Pragmatics. I could not be happier with the final...

Nov 1, 2019

Negated Ifs in Amsterdam

This year's Amsterdam Colloquium will see me present my paper "Negating Conditionals in Bilateral Semantics." Here is the abstract: A...

Jun 9, 2019

New Draft: Can

A draft of my "Two Puzzles about Ability Can" is now available in the Research section. Here is the abstract: The received wisdom on...

Jun 5, 2019

New Draft: Subjectivity

It took a while, but a draft of my "Evidence, Attitudes, and Counterstance Contingency: Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Subjective Meaning"...

Aug 8, 2018

Subjectivity at the World Congress

I will be talking about subjectivity and other enigmas at the World Congress of Philosophy in Beijing on August 19. More info about this...

Apr 5, 2018

DEON 2016 Special Issue

Our DEON 2016 special issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation is now forthcoming. As always it was a pleasure working with Olivier...

Feb 17, 2018

Can at the Central

Next week I will present my "Two Puzzles about Agentive Can" at the Central APA in Chicago (Thursday February 22, 12:10-2:10). David...

Dec 1, 2017

Free Choice in Amsterdam

This year's Amsterdam Colloquium will see me present my paper "Widening Free Choice." Here is the abstract: Disjunctions scoping under...

Oct 31, 2017

Subjectivity in Berlin

Next stop will be Berlin, where I will be presenting joint work with Chris Kennedy on counterstance contingency and subjective meaning at...

Sep 25, 2017

L&P Workshop 2017--18

This year's University of Chicago Linguistic and Philosophy Workshop is off to a good start with a visit John Horty this Friday,...

Jun 15, 2017

InqBnB Workshop

I will be presenting some new work on free choice and its failures at the Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary Workshop...