Updates | Malte Willer

Feb 10, 2017

Simplifying with Free Choice

My "Simplifying with Free Choice" is now forthcoming in Topoi as a contribution to a selection of papers presented at the 20th Amsterdam...

Oct 21, 2016

Lessons from Sobel Sequences

My "Lessons from Sobel Sequences" is now forthcoming in Semantics and Pragmatics. I will post the doi as soon as it becomes available. In...

Sep 8, 2016

Honoring Josef Stern

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago is organizing a conference in honor of Josef Stern, William H. Colvin Professor...

Aug 3, 2016

Advice for Noncognitivists

My unsolicited advice to noncognitivsts is forthcoming in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (available online here). Here is the abstract:...

Jul 11, 2016

DEON 2016

Deontic Logic and Normative Systems 2016 is starting a week from today at the University of Bayreuth. It was great working on the program...

Jun 20, 2016

UQAM

I will be talking about reasoning with epistemic modals at the Summer School in Cognitive Sciences 2016, courtesy of UQAM. This promises...

May 31, 2016

Quantrell Award

I am deeply honored to have received a Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. You can find some news coverage here.

Apr 17, 2016

Subjectivity at SALT 26

Next stop will be Austin in May, where Chris Kennedy and I will be presenting our joint project on subjective attitude verbs at Semantics...

Mar 7, 2016

March Events

This March will see me attend three wonderful events as speaker or commentator: give a talk at Berkeley's Meaning Sciences Workshop...

Dec 12, 2015

Amsterdam Colloquium

This year's Amsterdam Colloquium will see me present my paper "Simplifying Counterfactuals." Here is the abstract: The fact that...

Sep 11, 2015

Nonmonotonicity at Elucidations

Check out Matt Teichman and Daniel Smith and me musing over nonmonotonicity in Episode 75 of Elucidations. In case you do not know it...

Apr 7, 2015

Modality and Subjectivity Workshop

There'll be a one-day workshop on modality and subjectivity, free and open to the public, here at the University of Chicago on April...

Feb 16, 2015

Central APA

Those who are interested and happen to be in the area can see me present my paper "Advice for Noncognitivists" at this year's Central APA...

Sep 5, 2014

Dynamic Conditionals

For those who are interested a draft of my paper on dynamic conditionals, to be presented at this joyful event, is now available in the...

Sep 4, 2014

Deontic Modals

Wading through the massive literature on deontic modality paid off and there are now two papers on deontic modals and conditionals...

Aug 17, 2014

Talk, Talk, Talk Again

This busy fall season I will be delivering talks on dynamic conditionals and on metaethical noncognitivism at the following events: PhLiP...

Mar 19, 2014

Subjectivity in Language and Thought

I am pleased to announce that the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society will fund a three-year interdisciplinary research...

Jan 29, 2014

Central APA

Those who are interested and happen to be in Chi-town at the end of February can see me present my paper "A Problem with Thinning" at...

Dec 2, 2013

Amsterdam Colloquium

This year's Amsterdam Colloquium will see me present my paper "Indicative Scorekeeping." A draft of the piece that is forthcoming in the...

Apr 9, 2013

Talk, Talk, Talk

Workshop on Deontic Modals at Northwestern, April 19 (more info here) USC Deontic Modality Workshop, May 20--22 (program here)...