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Many preschoolers don't distinguish the possible from the impossible in a marble-catching task

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2024): e105794. Final publication is available here

Don't you see the possibilities? Young preschoolers may lack possibility concepts

Developmental Science (2023): e13400. Final publication is available here

Minimal representations of possibility at age 3

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(52) (2022): e2207499119; joint work with Michael Huemer, Matt Steele, Stephanie Alderete and Susan Carey. Final publication is available here

Might and might not: Children's conceptual development and the acquisition of modal verbs

Semantics and Linguistic Theory XXXI (2022): 426-445; joint work with Eimantas Zalnieriunas. Final publication is available here

Extended difficulties with counterfactuals persist in reasoning with false beliefs: Evidence for teleology-in-perspective

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 204 (2021): 105058; joint work with Eva Rafetseder, Christine O'Brien, and Josef Perner. Final publication is available here

The Acquisition of Modal Concepts

Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24(1) (2020): 65-78; joint work with Susan Carey. Final publication is available here

Could It Be So? The Cognitive Science of Possibility

Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24(1) (2020): 3-4; joint work with Susan Carey, Jonathan Redshaw, and Thomas Suddendorf. Final publication is available here

Mental files theory of mind: When do children consider agents acquainted with different object identities?

Cognition 171 (2018): 122-129; joint work with Michael Huemer and Josef Perner. Open access final publication is available here

Counterfactual antecedent falsity and the epistemic sensitivity of counterfactuals

Philosophical Studies 175(1): 45-69. Penultimate version; the final publication is available here

Two Arguments for the Etiological Theory Over the Modal Theory of Biological Function

Synthese 194(4) (2017): 1169-1187; joint work with Maximilian Huber. Penultimate version; the final publication is available here

Mental Files in Development. Dual Naming, False Belief, Identity and Intensionality

Review of Philosophy and Psychology 7(2) (2016): 491-508; joint work with Josef Perner. Penultimate version; the final publication is available here

Simplicity and Elegance in Millikan's Account of Productivity: Reply to Martinez

Philosophical Psychology 29(4) (2016): 503-516. Penultimate version; the final publication is available here

On Presuppositional Implicatures

Topoi 35 (2016): 83-91. Penultimate version; the final publication is available here

Mental files and belief: A cognitive theory of how children represent belief and its intensionality

Cognition 145 (2015): 77-88; joint work with Josef Perner and Michael Huemer. Open access final publication is available here

Counterfactual Antecedent Falsity and Embedded Antipresuppositions

From MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 75

Teleosemantics: Intentionality, Productivity, and the Theory of Meaning

Language and Linguistics Compass vol. 8 (2014): 197-210. Penultimate version; the final publication is available here

Basic Conditional Reasoning: How Children Mimic Counterfactual Reasoning

Studia Logica 102(4) (2014): 793-810; joint work with Eva Rafetseder and Josef Perner. Open access final publication is available here

Can Teleosemantics Deflect the EAAN?

Philosophia vol. 41 (2013): 221-238. Penultimate version; the final publication is available here

Presuppositions and Antipresuppositions in Conditionals

From Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory XXI

A Teleosemantic Theory of Mental Conditionals

Draft; please do not cite without permission