Talks

2025

Experiments on Deontic Modals

TbiLLC 2025, Kutaisi, Georgia 8–12 September 2025. Joint work with Arseny Anisimov.

Truthmaker semantics for causal sufficiency

Truthmaker Semantics and Modal Logic, Bochum, Germany, 4–8 August 2025

The parts of only

Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 35, Harvard University, 20–22 May 2025. Joint work with Keny Chatain.

Disjunctions of universal modals and conditionals: a solution to Zimmerman's problem

Meaning, Logic, and Cognition Seminar, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 28 February 2025

On the nature of reasons why

7th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL 2025).  Jadavpur University, Kolkata.  6–8 February 2025. 

On the logic of reasons for

11th Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA 2025). Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. 3–5 February 2025.

Analyses of difference-making

American Philosophical Association (APA), Eastern Division. New York, 8–11 January 2025.

2024

Local Modals

Meaning in Language Colloquium Series, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 11 December 2024.

New Experimental Evidence Against the Similarity Approach to Conditionals

University of Padua, 21 October 2024. Joint work with Tomasz Klochowicz.
Slides

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 Klochowicz.
Abstract  Poster  Lightning talk slides  OSF page

A Dynamic Interpretation of Structural Causal Models

Formal Methods and Science in Philosophy V, Dubrovnic, 16–18 May 2024
Slides

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
Abstract Slides

Modality Disordered

Linguae Seminar, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, 21 March 2024
Abstract Slides

A Dynamic Interpretation of Structural Causal Models

Converging On Causal Ontology Analyses (COCOA), Online, 23 February 2024
Abstract  Slides

Conditional Perfection in the Semantics of Causal Claims

Colloquium on Empirical English Linguistics, Humboldt University, Berlin, 18 January 2024
Abstract  Slides

2023

'Because'

UMass Amherst Seminar, 7 December 2023
Slides

Unraveling Sartorio's Difference-Making Principle

Fourteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation, Telavi, Georgia, 18–22 September 2023
Abstract Slides

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
Abstract Slides

2022

Aboutness and modality

Amsterdam Colloquium, 19–21 December 2022

Proceedings paper Poster

Sufficiency and imagination

Dutch Logic PhD Day, 1 July 2022

Imagining a different world: defining sufficiency using truthmaker semantics

Logic4Peace, 22–23 April 2022

Abstract  Slides

2021

Exhaustification in the semantics of cause and because

Meaning, Logic and Cognition Seminar, ILLC 5 November 2021

Handout

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

Slides

Newcomb's Problem: an introduction to decision theory

Φ-Math Reading Group, ILLC, University of Amsterdam 29 January 2021

Slides

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

Slides

Proceedings paper [preprint]

The Limits of Causal Graphs: Density

Logic Seminar, Charles University, Prague 23 November 2020

Slides

Causality, magic, and tense-modal interaction

UMass Amherst semantics seminar 9 October 2020

Handout

How to cause the inevitable

10th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP 10), University of Utrecht 24-28 August 2020

Slides

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

Slides

2019

Negation and alternatives in conditional antecedents

22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam 18-20 December 2019

Proceedings paper

Poster

Actual causality in dynamical systems

Workshop on Statistical Inference, University of Amsterdam 3 December 2019

Slides

How to cause the inevitable

OSZW 2019 (annual conference of the Dutch Research School in Philosophy) 15-16 November 2019

Poster

A problem for inquisitive semantics of conditionals

ESSLLI 2019 Student Session, 13 August 2019

Slides

Exclusification in conditional antecedents

Crete Summer School in Linguistics (CreteLing) Poster Session 14 July 2019

Poster

Negation and alternatives in inquisitive semantics

Inquisitive semantics seminar, ILLC, University of Amsterdam 5 April 2019

Slides

Foundations of mechanistic reasoning

Talk for a general audience

Amsterdam Philosophy PhD symposium February 28 2019

Slides

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

Slides

2016

Paradoxical Predicates

Cool Logic, Internal Logic Seminar, ILLC Amsterdam  December 3, 2016

Draft paper

Imagining things otherwise: the case for counterfactual seriality

PLM Masterclass on Timothy Williamson, Institute of Advanced Study, University of London November 19, 2016

Slides