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.
My research interest interest lie at the intersection of philosophy, psychology of reasoning, and linguistics. Broadly speaking, I am interested in the relationship between language and thought, or, more specifically, how the way we chose to communicate influences beliefs and attitudes of our interlocutors. A lot of my work has been devoted to semantics and pragmatics of indicative conditionals and their role in reasoning and decision making. More recently, I've been thinking about goal framing, microaggressions, and the way implicitly communciated content can be used to propagate or reinforce harmful stereotypes and biases.
Before coming to Amsterdam, I worked at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), LMU Munich, and I remain an external member of the Center. In Munich, I was also affiliated with theCenter for Advanced Studies. Before my current position I was a postdoc at the Logic of Conceivability Project, based at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam, and affiliated with the Arché Research Center of the University of St Andrews, UK. I obtained my PhD in Philosophy in 2015 from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, where I worked under the supervision of Igor Douven. You can find my PhD dissertation here: Between "If" and "Then:" Towards an Empirically Informed Philosphy of Conditionals.
* In June 2024, I talked about conditional reasoning and framing of health communication at the International Conference on Thinking (ICT2024) at the Unicersity of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Subsequently, I presented an extended version of the talk at TULIPS lecture series at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the University of Utrecht. This is new joint work with Peter Collins and Ulrike Hahn.
* The Compact Compendium of Experimental Philosopy, edited by Alexander Max Bauer and Stephan Kornmesser, to which Igor Douven, Shira Elqayam, and I contributed a chapter on the experimental philosophy of logic and formal epistemology, is out! Click here to access it.
* I co-authored two papers inspired by Timothy Williamson's recent book on conditionals, both are open access. 'Williamson's Abductive Case for the Material Conditional Account', a joint work with Robert van Rooij and Igor Douven appeared in Studia Logica. 'Williamson on Conditionals and Testimony', co-written with Igor Douven is out in Philosophical Studies.
* Igor Douven, Shira Elqayam, and Karolina Krzyżanowska (2024). `The Experimental Philosophy of Logic and Formal Epistemology.' The Compact Compendium of Experimental Philosopy ed. by Alexander Max Bauer and Stephan Kornmesser, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 211-236. (link)
* Robert van Rooij, Karolina Krzyżanowska, and Igor Douven (2023), 'Williamson's Abductive Case for the Material Conditional Account.' Studia Logica 111: 653–685. (open access)
* Karolina Krzyżanowska and Igor Douven (2023), 'Williamson on Conditionals and Testimony.' Philosophical Studies 180: 121-131. (open access)
* Igor Douven, Shira Elqayam, and Karolina Krzyżanowska. (2023) ``Inferentialism: A Manifesto.'' In: Conditionals: Logic, linguistics, and psychology ed. by S. Kaufmann, D. Over, and G. Sharma. Palgrave Macmillan. (link)
* 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 87: 1773–1793, (2022). (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 Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 2 Theories and Applications ed. by A. Capone. 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
Philosophical and Formal Approaches to Linguistic
Analysis, ed. by P. Stalmaszczyk. Ontos Verlag, pp. 315-332.
* Karolina Krzyżanowska (2010). 'Sprawozdania z przekonań w perspektywie filozofii języka i kognitywistyki',
Przegląd Filozoficzny 3 (75): 297-319.
Graduate level at the University of Amsterdam:
* Rationality, Cognition, and Reasoning, Master's of Logic and Master's of Philosophy (Autumn 2022, 2023).
Undergraduate level at the University of Amsterdam:
* Philosophy of the Humanities (Language and Cognition), BSc Cognition, Language, and Communication, BA Linguistics, and BA Sign Linguistics (Autumn 2020, 2022, 2023).
* Embodied Cognition, BA Philosophy (Spring 2022, 2023, 2024).
* Semantics and Pragmatics, BA Linguistics and BA Sign Linguistics (Spring 2022, 2023, 2024)
* Human Cognition Part II, BSc Cognition, Language, and Communication (Spring 2022, 2023, 2024).
Undergraduate level at the Amsterdam University College:
* Logic, Information, Argumentation, Academic Core (Spring 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024).
In the past, I also taught advanced bachelor's and master's levels courses in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, history of the analytic philosophy, and specialised seminars on conditionals in philosophy and psychology of reasoning.
k dot h dot krzyzanowska at uva dot nl
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Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Universiteit van Amsterdam
P.O. Box 94242
1090 GE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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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