Research

2023

Causation and Modality

University of Amsterdam PhD thesis [pdf]

Exhaustification in the semantics of cause and because

Glossa [doi]

2022

Aboutness and Modality

Proceedings of the 2022 Amsterdam Colloquium [paper]

2020

Are Causes ever too Strong? Downward Monotonicity in the Causal Domain

TLLM 2020: Monotonicity in Logic and Language (eds. Dun Deng, Fenrong Liu, Mingming Liu and Dag Westerståhl)

[preprint] [doi]

2019

with Alexandre Cremers

Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, December 2019

Proceedings of ESSLLI 2019 Student Session, August 2019

[preprint] [ESSLLI proceedings]

2018

With the help of diagrams, this paper presents the truth conditions of general causal claims (e.g. “The sun shining causes the ground to warm”) in terms of state-transitions through time. We aim, in other words, to analyse general causality as a logical pattern of time.

In Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (eds. Chapman P., Stapleton G., Moktefi A., Perez-Kriz S., Bellucci F.), Diagrams 2018. Springer LNCS 10871 [doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91376-6_32]