Research

Publications

• Schwartz, E., Pion, G. (=co-first authors), Quilty-Dunn, J., Mandelbaum, E., & Caplan, S. (2025). "Polysemy and Inference: Reasoning with Underspecified Representations", in Azzurra Ruggeri, David Barner, Caren Walker & Neil Bramley (eds.), Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (preprint here)

• Pion, G., Schwartz, E. (=co-first authors), & Mandelbaum, E. (forthcoming), "Believe What We Think!: The Spinozan Theory of Mind", in T. Lombrozo & N. Van Leeuwen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief. (preprint here)

Works in Progress

• Paper on whether polysemy should be modeled as ambiguity (under review; draft available upon request)

• Study on whether generics uniquely lead to essentialism, and the underlying mechanisms for generic memory asymmetry effects (with Jared Vasil, Elliot Schwartz, Julia Johnson, Eric Mandelbaum, Marjorie Rhodes) (in progress; draft available upon request)

• Study on the representations used in reasoning (with Elliot Schwartz, Jake Quilty-Dunn, Eric Mandelbaum, and Spencer Caplan) (in progress)

• Paper on the similarity of different individual's conceptual contents, and the Fodorian "Publicity Constraint" (in progress) 

• Paper on whether the language of thought is a natural kind (draft available upon request)