Talks
2024
To be announced
COCOA Seminar, Online, 11 October 2024
New Experimental Evidence against the Similarity Approach to Conditionals
Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 34, Rochester New York, 28–30 May 2024. Joint work with Tomasz Klockowicz.
Abstract OSF page: doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/78PT2
A Dynamic Interpretation of Structural Causal Models
Formal Methods and Science in Philosophy V, Dubrovnic, 16–18 May 2024
Wide Scope Simplification: Free Choice Effects from Disjunctions of Conditionals
The 4th Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning (TLLM IV), Beijing, 29–31 March 2024
Modality Disordered
Linguae Seminar, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, 21 March 2024
A Dynamic Interpretation of Structural Causal Models
COCOA Seminar, Online, 23 February 2024
Conditional Perfection in the Semantics of Causal Claims
Colloquium on Empirical English Linguistics, Humboldt University, Berlin, 18 January 2024
2023
'Because'
UMass Amherst Seminar, 7 December 2023
Unraveling Sartorio's Difference-Making Principle
Fourteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation, Telavi, Georgia, 18–22 September 2023
A new test for discrimination: the existential but-for test
Causality for Ethics and Society, Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy, 24–25 July 2023
& CEPDISK'23 Conference on Discrimination, Aarhus University, 12–13 October 2023
2022
Aboutness and modality
Amsterdam Colloquium, 19–21 December 2022
Sufficiency and imagination
Dutch Logic PhD Day, 1 July 2022
Imagining a different world: defining sufficiency using truthmaker semantics
Logic4Peace, 22–23 April 2022
2021
Exhaustification in the semantics of cause and because
Meaning, Logic and Cognition Seminar, ILLC 5 November 2021
Because, exhaustification and focus-sensitivity
GLOW 44, 15 April 2021
Negation and counterfactuals in conditional antecedents
University College London seminar on conditionals, 26 February 2021
Newcomb's Problem: an introduction to decision theory
Φ-Math Reading Group, ILLC, University of Amsterdam 29 January 2021
2020
Are causes ever too strong? Downward left monotonicity in the causal domain
Second Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning: Monotonicity in Logic and Language, Beijing 17-20 December 2020
The Limits of Causal Graphs: Density
Logic Seminar, Charles University, Prague 23 November 2020
Causality, magic, and tense-modal interaction
UMass Amherst semantics seminar 9 October 2020
How to cause the inevitable
10th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP 10), University of Utrecht 24-28 August 2020
Homogeneity and domain restriction in the semantics of causal claims
Meaning, Logic and Cognition (MLC) seminar, ILLC, University of Amsterdam 8 May 2020
Causality = time + modality + effective difference-making
Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRA) seminar, ILLC, University of Amsterdam 5 March 2020
2019
Negation and alternatives in conditional antecedents
22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam 18-20 December 2019
Actual causality in dynamical systems
Workshop on Statistical Inference, University of Amsterdam 3 December 2019
How to cause the inevitable
OSZW 2019 (annual conference of the Dutch Research School in Philosophy) 15-16 November 2019
A problem for inquisitive semantics of conditionals
ESSLLI 2019 Student Session, 13 August 2019
Exclusification in conditional antecedents
Crete Summer School in Linguistics (CreteLing) Poster Session 14 July 2019
Negation and alternatives in inquisitive semantics
Inquisitive semantics seminar, ILLC, University of Amsterdam 5 April 2019
Foundations of mechanistic reasoning
Talk for a general audience
Amsterdam Philosophy PhD symposium February 28 2019
2017
Winning Questions: inquisitive semantics and the lottery paradox
with Grzegorz Lisowski and Max Rapp
5th Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Probability, London School of Economics June 2, 2017
2016
Paradoxical Predicates
Cool Logic, Internal Logic Seminar, ILLC Amsterdam December 3, 2016
Imagining things otherwise: the case for counterfactual seriality
PLM Masterclass on Timothy Williamson, Institute of Advanced Study, University of London November 19, 2016