My name is Henry Schiller.
I’m a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield.
h.i.schiller (at) sheffield (dot) ac (dot) uk
Curriculum Vitae
About me
My work explores how creatures like us can use linguistic tools to change one another's minds. This has lead me to think about the relationship between language and thought (and the cognitive science at the foundations of rational linguistic behavior) in general. My approach to these topics puts my work at the intersection of philosophy of language, social philosophy, and philosophy of mind.
I completed my PhD at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Josh Dever and Mark Sainsbury. In May of 2022 I took up a 3-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Sheffield. My Leverhulme project addresses foundational questions about the nature of rational learning and attitude change.
Outside of philosophy, I have been involved in various music projects in New York City and Austin, Texas. Some of my own recordings are sometimes used as background music on the NPR show Invisibilia.
Published Writing
︎Directing Thought - Ergo (forthcoming)
︎Genericity and Inductive Inference - Philosophy of Science (2023)
︎What’s your opinion? Negation and ‘Weak’ Attitude Verbs - Phil. Quarterly (2023)
︎Meaning and Responsibility w/ Ray Buchanan - Mind & Language (2023)
︎Pragmatic Particularism w/ Ray Buchanan - PPR (2022)
︎A Hole in the Box and a Pain in the Mouth w/ Laurenz Casser - Phil. Quarterly (2021)
︎This Paper Might Change Your Mind w/ Josh Dever - Noûs (2021)
︎Illocutionary Harm - Philosophical Studies (2021)
︎Acts of Desire - Inquiry (2021)
︎Is that a threat? - Erkenntnis (2021)
︎Phenomenal Dispositions - Synthese (2020)
︎The Nyaya Argument for Disjunctivism - History of Philosophy Quarterly (2019)
Work in Progress
revise and resubmit
︎A paper about what we learn from imperatives
︎A paper about domain restriction and cognitive defaults w/ Katherine Ritchie
under review [email for drafts]
︎A paper about how imperatives motivate w/ Shaun Nichols
︎A paper about practical questions and planning w/ Dan Harris
︎Two papers about the attitude of relief w/ Casey O’Callaghan
in progress [email to confirm existence of drafts]
︎A paper about rational learning and discourse structure
︎A paper about rational learning and desire satisfaction
︎A paper about rational learning and Jeffrey conditionalization w/ Josh Dever
︎A paper about domain restriction and discourse structure
︎A paper about domain restriction and rule learning w/ Shaun Nichols
︎A paper about what desires it’s rational to have w/ Daniel Drucker
︎A paper about norms of attention in relationships w/ Margherita Harris
︎A book review of The Politics of Language by David Beaver & Jason Stanley