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.
Recent and Upcoming Talks (2024)
6/2024: “The Functions of Folk Psychology”, Genre and Conversation Workshop
4/2024: “Default Domain Restriction Possibilities”, Dublin Language Workshop
3/2024: “Explaining Abilities”, Ability: Language and Action, Berlin
2/2024: “Wanting Brought to an End”, Washington University in St. Louis
Recent Activities
- Nico Kirk-Giannini (Rutgers) and I will be teaching a seminar on speech acts in dynamic pragmatics at ESSLLI this summer.
- My paper “Wanting Brought to an End” is one of the co-winners of the Twelfth Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology (Bence Nanay's research group).