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Matthew Mandelkern is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at New York University, specializing in philosophy of language, semantics, and philosophy of cognitive science. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT and a B.A. from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on modals, conditionals, presupposition, and anaphora, with notable contributions to epistemic modality and dynamic semantics. Prior to NYU, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and an external member of the Language and Meaning Centre at University College London.
His recent work explores topics like conditional reasoning in large language models, the dynamics of presupposition projection, and the logic of epistemic modals. Mandelkern has authored a book, Bounded Meaning: The Dynamics of Interpretation (2024), and teaches advanced courses on dynamic semantics and conditionals at NYU and international conferences like ESSLLI. His research bridges formal semantics, cognitive science, and philosophy, addressing foundational questions in linguistic theory and epistemology.
Mandelkern’s academic leadership includes organizing interdisciplinary courses on conditionals and decision theory, emphasizing local information-sensitivity in semantic interpretation. His work is published in top-tier journals such as Philosophical Perspectives, Journal of Philosophy, and Linguistics and Philosophy, reflecting his rigorous integration of formal methods with philosophical inquiry.
