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.

Starting in September, I will be a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at King's College London.

henry.schiller [at] univie.ac.at

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 difference between rational learning and arational attitude change (r&r at Mind).
• A paper about the function of folk psychology (r&r at Mind and Language).
• A survey article about speech acts and rational attitude change (for Philosophy Compass).
• A paper with Shaun Nichols about how we acquire knowledge of rules in pedagogical contexts (under review).
• A paper with Jake Quilty-Dunn about the rationality of 'hoarding' rather than updating on information you learn (under review).
• A paper with Josh Dever about the normativity of Jeffrey Conditionalization.
• A paper with Eric Mandelbaum about the status of desire (and other non-belief attitudes) in cognitive science.

Publications.

• How do Instructions Help Us Make Rational Decisions? Linguistics and Philosophy (forthcoming).
• How to Make People Do Things with Words (with Shaun Nichols). Nous (forthcoming).
• Default Domain Restriction Possibilities (with Kate Ritchie). Semantics and Pragmatics (2025).
• Directing Thought. Ergo (2025).
• 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).

Misc.

• Wanting Brought to an End (Co-winner of the 12th Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology).

Book reviews.

• The Politics of Language by David Beaver and Jason Stanley Analysis.