My name is Henry Schiller.
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Philosophy at King's College London.
henry.schiller [at] kcl.ac.uk
My research is about communication and rationality.
Work in Progress
A paper about the differnce between rational and arational forms of attitude change (r&r at Mind).
A survey article about the rationality of linguistic communication (for Philosophy Compass).
A paper about hoarding rather than updating on information you learn (with Jake Quilty-Dunn; under review).
An experimental paper about the rationality of rule-learning (with Shaun Nichols; under review).
A paper about how imperatives aim to regulate/shape the social world (with Katherine Ritchie; in progress).
A paper about constraints on decision-making. (with Camilo Martinez; in progress).
Published Articles
Advocacy and the function of folk psychology. Accepted. Mind and Language.
How do instructions help us make rational decisions? Forthcoming. Linguistics and Philosophy.
How to make people do things with words, with Shaun Nichols. Forthcoming. Noûs.
Directing thought. 2025. Ergo.
Default domain restriction possibilities, with Katherine Ritchie. 2024. Semantics and Pragmatics.
Genericity and inductive inference. 2023. Philosophy of Science.
What's your opinion? Negation and 'weak' attitude verbs. 2023. Philosophical Quarterly.
Meaning and responsibility, with Ray Buchanan. 2023. Mind and Language.
Pragmatic particularism, with Ray Buchanan. 2022. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
This paper might change your mind, with Josh Dever. 2021. Noûs.
A hole in the box and a pain in the mouth, with Laurenz Casser. 2021. Philosophical Quarterly.
Illocutionary harm. 2021. Philosophical Studies.
Acts of desire. 2021. Inquiry.
Is that a threat? 2021. Erkenntnis.
Phenomenal dispositions. 2020. Synthese.
Acquaintance and first-person attitude reports. 2019. Analysis.
The Nyāya argument for disjunctivism. 2019. History of Philosophy Quarterly.
The swapping constraint. 2018. Minds and Machines.