I am an Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Language and Cognition at the Philosophy Department and at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
I obtained my PhD in Philosophy in 2015 from the University of Groningen, where I worked under the supervision of Igor Douven. My doctoral thesis is titled Between "If" and "Then:" Towards an Empirically Informed Philosphy of Conditionals. In 2014-2017, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP)
of the LMU Munich, and I remain an external member of the Center. After that, I moved to Amsterdam where I worked as a postdoc at the Logic of Conceivability Project, based both at the ILLC and at the Philosophy Department of the University of Amsterdam. Through the project, I have also been affiliated with the Arché Research Center of the University of St Andrews, UK.
My research interest interest lie at the intersection of philosophy, psychology of reasoning, and linguistics. I've been working on semantics and pragmatics of conditionals, their role in reasoning and decision making, as well as various issues related to semantics-pragmatics interface, and philosophy of psychology of reasoning.
Here you can find my full CV.
* Karolina Krzyżanowska, Peter Collins, and Ulrike Hahn (2021), 'True Clauses and False Connections'. Journal of Memory and Language 121: 104252
(open access).
* Peter Collins, Karolina Krzyżanowska, Stephan Hartmann, Gregory Wheeler, and Ulrike Hahn (2020), 'Conditionals and Testimony'. Cognitive Psychology 122: 101329 (open access).
* Karolina Krzyżanowska, Peter Collins, and Ulrike Hahn (2020). '...that P is relevant for Q:
Indicative conditionals and learning from testimony.' Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 987-993 (open access).
* Alexander Reutlinger, Mark Colyvan, and Karolina Krzyżanowska (2020). 'The Prospects for a Monist Theory of Non-Causal Explanation in Science and Mathematics.' Erkenntnis (open access).
* Karolina Krzyżanowska (2020). 'Deliberationally useless conditionals.' Episteme 17 (1): 1-27 (open access).
* Karolina Krzyżanowska (2019). 'What Is Wrong With False-Link Conditionals?' Linguistic Vanguard 5 (s3): 20190006 (link, preprint).
* Niels Skovgaard-Olsen, Peter Collins, Karolina Krzyżanowska, Ulrike Hahn, and Karl Christoph Klauer, (2019). 'Cancellation, Negation, and Rejection.' Cognitive Psychology 108: 42-71
(link, preprint).
* Igor Douven and Karolina Krzyżanowska, 'The Semantics–Pragmatics Interface: An Empirical Investigation'. In: Alessandro Capone (ed.) Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 2 Theories and Applications, Cham: Springer (link, preprint).
* Karolina Krzyżanowska and Igor Douven (2018). 'Missing-link Conditionals: Pragmatically Infelicitous or Semantically Defective?'. Intercultural Pragmatics 15 (2): 191-211 (link, preprint).
* Karolina Krzyżanowska, Peter Collins, and Ulrike Hahn (2017). 'The Puzzle of Conditionals with True Clauses: Against the Gricean Account'. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2476-2481 (open access).
* Karolina Krzyżanowska, Peter Collins, and Ulrike Hahn (2017). 'Between a conditional’s antecedent and its consequent: discourse coherence vs. probabilistic relevance', Cognition 164: 199-205 (open access).
* Karolina Krzyżanowska, Sylvia Wenmackers, and Igor Douven (2014). 'Rethinking Gibbard's Riverboat Argument', Studia Logica 102 (4): 771-792 (link,
preprint).
* Karolina Krzyżanowska, Sylvia Wenmackers, and Igor Douven (2013). 'Inferential Conditionals and Evidentiality'. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 22 (3): 315-334 (link,
preprint).
* Karolina Krzyżanowska (2013) 'Belief Ascription and the Ramsey Test', Synthese 190 (1): 21-36 (link, preprint).
* Karolina Krzyżanowska, Sylvia
Wenmackers, Igor Douven, and Sara Verbrugge (2012). 'Conditionals, Inference, and Evidentiality' in: Jakub Szymanik and Rineke Verbrugge (eds.): 'Proceedings of the Logic &
Cognition Workshop at ESSLLI 2012, Opole, Poland, 13-17 August,
2012', vol. 883 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org, pp. 38-47 (pdf).
* Karolina Krzyżanowska (2012). 'Ambiguous Conditionals' in: Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.):
Philosophical and Formal Approaches to Linguistic
Analysis, Ontos Verlag, pp. 315-332.
* Karolina Krzyżanowska (2010). 'Sprawozdania z przekonań w perspektywie filozofii języka i kognitywistyki',
Przegląd Filozoficzny 3 (75): 297-319.
* I am beyond excited to announce that on November 1, 2021, I am starting as an Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) in Philosophy of Language and Cognition at the Philosophy Department and the at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam.
* On August 30, Tom Schoonen, has presented our joint work on implicit bias and imagination at the 28th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP 2021).
* 'True Clauses and False Connections' (joint work with Peter Collins, and Ulrike Hahn) is out in Journal of Memory and Language and it is Open Access. You can download it here.
* Together with my colleagues from the Logic of Conceivability Project I have organised the Logic and Conceivability Conference (7-9 June 2021, unfortunately but understandably, online).
* 'Conditionals and Testimony,' with Peter Collins, Stephan Hartmann, Gregory Wheeler, and Ulrike Hahn is out in Cognitive Psychology and it is Open Access. You can download it here.
* 'The Prospects for a Monist Theory of Non-Causal Explanation in Science and Mathematics' with Alexander Reutlinger and Mark Colyvan appeared in Erkenntnis and it is Open Access. You can download it here.
k dot h dot krzyzanowska at uva dot nl
Mailing Address:
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Universiteit van Amsterdam
P.O. Box 94242
1090 GE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Visiting Address:
Instutute for Logic, Language and Computation
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Science Park 107, Room: F2.10
1098 XG Amsterdam
(Via entrance of NIKHEF, Science Park 105)
Kah-ro-LEE-nah Kshyh-zha-NOff-skah.
I am well aware that my name may look intimidating to anyone unfamiliar with Slavic languages, so here I explain how to approach it step by step: syllable by syllable.
My first name, Karolina, should not pose any problems. The vowel "a" sounds like in English "father" or German "Mann." The "o" sounds roughly like in "not" or like in German "voll", and the syllable "li" sounds like "lee."
My surname, Krzyżanowska, is a little trickier, but still not nearly as hard as it looks like, so bear with me.
First of all, "rz" in the first syllable is a digraph, just like English "sh" in "share", which is also how it sounds. The vowel "y" is pronounced like this, roughly like in English "rhythm."
The consonant in the second syllable, "ż" (z with an overdot), sounds like this. It isn't a very common sound in English, but you can here it in "fusion." It is common in French though, e.g., "journal." The "ow" in the third syllable sounds exactly like English "off", and "a" at the end approximates that in "father."
I am an amateurish cello player, a clumsy
sport climber, and a dilettante painter.
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