I'm a 6th year PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park where I'm advised by Fabrizio Cariani, Paolo Santorio, and Alexander Williams.  I study meaning in natural language using tools from logic and computer science.  Most of my current work focuses on modality, pronominal anaphora, scalar implicature, and subjective language. While I mainly write on those topics, I'm also interested in modal logic, formal epistemology, decision theory/game theory, and many topics in cognitive science.  I'm a member of the interdisciplinary group Meaning at Maryland. 

In Progress & Under Review

Kendrick, J.C. & J. Mendes (in preparation). Composing finding. slides

Kendrick, J.C. (under review). Default premise semantics and the 'if p, ought p' problem.  

Kendrick, J. C. (under review). Two puzzles about epistemic necessity.  draft 

Kendrick, J. C. (under review). Ability modals and homogeneity.  draft 

Conference Proceedings  

Kendrick, J. C. (2022). The acquaintance inference as scalar exhaustification. In M. Degano, T. Roberts, G. Sbardolini, & M. Schouwstra (eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 166-172. final

While I publish under my full name, Jonathan Caleb Kendrick, I go by middle name "Caleb." In my free time, I sometimes play quizbowl.