My name is Henry Schiller.

I am a University Assistant at the University of Vienna, and a member of the Knowledge in Crisis Cluster of Excellence project.

henry.schiller [at] univie.ac.at

About me.

My research is all about how our attitudes change. I've approach this topic from a number of different angles:

• How we can change each other's minds (PhD Thesis, 2021)
• Preference and desire change (Leverhulme ECF, 2022-2025)
• Cognitive limits on rational attitude change

Before coming to Vienna I was a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield, and before that a McDonnell postdoctoral fellow in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. I did my Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin with Josh Dever and Mark Sainsbury. I am the Speech Acts area editor for PhilPapers.

Papers in progress or under review (email for drafts).

• A paper about the role of imperatives in raitonal decision making (r&r at Linguistics and Philosophy).
• A paper about the function of folk psychology (r&r at Mind and Language).
• A paper with Shaun Nichols about how imperatives give rise to motivations to act (r&r at Nous).
• A paper about the difference between rational learning and arational attitude change (under review).
• A paper with Shaun Nichols about how we acquire knowledge of rules in pedagogical contexts (under review).
• A paper about creativite desiring, and the role of desire in second-person/relational ethics.
• A paper with Josh Dever about the normativity of Jeffrey Conditionalization.
• A paper with Jake Quilty-Dunn about the rationality of 'hoarding' rather than updating on information you learn.
• A paper with Eric Mandelbaum about the status of desire (and other non-belief attitudes) in cognitive science.

Publications.

• Default Domain Restriction Possibilities (with Kate Ritchie). Semantics and Pragmatics (forthcoming).
• Directing Thought. Ergo (forthcoming).
• What’s your Opinion? Negation and ‘Weak’ Attitude Verbs. Philosophical Quarterly (2023).
• Genericity and Inductive Inference. Philosophy of Science (2023).
• Meaning and Responsibility (with Ray Buchanan). Mind and Language (2022).
• Is that a threat? Erkenntnis (2021).
• Pragmatic Particularism (with Ray Buchanan). Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2021).
• A Hole in the Box and a Pain in the Mouth (with Laurenz Casser). Philosophical Quarterly (2021).
• Illocutionary Harm. Philosophical Studies (2021).
• Acts of Desire. Inquiry (2021).
• This Paper Might Change Your Mind (with Josh Dever). Nous (2020).
• Phenomenal Dispositions. Synthese (2020).
• Acquaintance and First-Person Attitude Reports. Analysis (2019).

Book reviews.

• The Politics of Language by David Beaver and Jason Stanley (forthcoming in Analysis).