NOTE: I now publish under 'W. Starr' and request that all past work be cited in this way. All BibTeX files linked below have this updated ;)

• "A Uniform Theory of Conditionals", Journal of Philosophical Logic 43(6), 1019-1064, 2014. Preprint; BibTeX.
• "What If?", Philosophers' Imprint 14(10), 1-27, 2014. BibTeX.
• "Mood, Force and Truth". ProtoSociology 31, 160-181, 2014. BibTeX.
• "Dynamic Expressivism about Deontic Modality". In N. Charlow and M. Chrisman (eds.), Deontic Modality, 355-394, 2016. New York: Oxford University Press. BibTeX.
• "Expressing Permission", in Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26, 325-349, 2016. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications. Slides; Abstract; BibTeX.
• "Force and Conversational States" (w/Sarah Murray), 202-236. In D. Fogal, D. Harris and M. Moss (eds.), New Work on Speech Acts, 2018. New York: Oxford University Press. BibTeX.
• "Conjoining Imperatives and Declaratives", Proceedings from Sinn und Bedeutung 21, 1159-1176, 2018. Edinburgh. BibTeX.
• "Socializing Pragmatics", 124-144, 2018. In G. Preyer (ed.), Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics. New York: Oxford University Press. BibTeX.
• "Counterfactuals", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (.ed), 2019. BibTeX.
• "A Preference Semantics for Imperatives", Semantics and Pragmatics 13, July 2020.
• "Conditional and Counterfactual Logic", 2021. In M. Knauff & W. Spohn (eds.). Handbook of Rationality. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• "The Structure of Communicative Acts" (w/Sarah Murray), Linguistics and Philosophy 44, 2021. Preprint.
• "Decomposing 'As If'" (w/Jessica Rett) in Proceedings of SALT 32, 2023.
• "Non-Literal Communication and Practical Coherence" (w/Alejandro Vesga) forthcoming in Coherence in Discourse (.ed G. Preyer) OUP.

My research investigates how we manage to use language to do things (e.g. communication, science, coordinated action, oppression).

• Norms of Communication: how social norms enable and disrupt communication (book project), MS Cornell.
• Imperative Dynamics (book project), MS Cornell.
• "Articulating Force", under review.
• "Questions and Trans Oppression", under review.
• "Hypothetical Posing" (w/Jessica Rett), MS Cornell and UCLA.
• "Modifying Speech Acts without Speech Act Modifiers" (w/Sarah Murray), MS Cornell.
• "Structured Possible Worlds", MS Cornell. Handout
• "Minimal Intervention and Counterfactual Cognition", MS Cornell.

• Conditionals, Meaning and Mood, Rutgers University October 2010. Abstract, Defense Slides.

• "Modifying Speech Acts without Speech Act Modifiers" (w/Sarah Murray) at PhLip 6. (November 2019).
• "Norms of Communication" at Dartmouth Workshop on Philosophy of Language and Social Philosophy. (October 2019).
• "Indicative Conditionals, Strictly", UConn Logic Group Workshop. (April 2019). Slides.
• "Norms of Communication", Department Colloquium, Syracuse. (April 2018).
• "Dynamic Expressivism", DEX V, UC Davis. (April 2017).
• Comments on David Boylan's "What the Future Might Brings", Pacific APA, Seattle. (April 2017)
• Comments on Jonathan Cohen & Andy Kehler's "On Convention and Coherence", Philosophy Desert Workshop, Moab, UT. (March 2017)
• "Conjoined Imperatives and Declaratives" (Slides), Sinn und Bedeutung 21, University of Edinburgh. (September 2016)
• "Minimal Intervention and Counterfactual Cognition", 42nd Society for Philosophy and Psychology, UT Austin. (June 2016)
• "Expressing Permission", Semantics and Linguistics Theory (SALT) 26. (May 2016) Slides.
• "Force and Conversational States" (joint work w/Sarah Murray), Stephen Neale and Daniel Harris' CUNY Graduate Center Seminar. (May 2016)
• "Force and Conversational States" (w/Sarah Murray), Philosophy Desert Workshop. (April 2016)
• "Force and Conversational States", Berkeley Meaning Sciences Club (March 2016).
• "Force and Conversational States" (joint work w/Sarah Murray), CMU Differentiating Contents Workshop (Dec 2015).
• "Expressing Choices", University of Pittsburgh (Dec 2015).
• "Structured Possible Worlds", UNAM; Mexico City (Oct 2015).
• "What is Communication?", UCLA (May 2015).
• "Imperative Dynamics", University of Texas at Austin (March 2015).
• "What is Communication?", Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (February 2015).
• "The Structure of Communicative Acts", (w/Sarah Murray) Rutgers Semantics Group (February 2015).
• "Structured Possible Worlds", Arché. St. Andrews, Scotland (May 2014).
• "Dynamic Expressivism about Deontic Modality", Eidyn Conference on Normativity and Modality. Edinburgh, Scotland (May 2014).
• "The Structure of Communicative Acts", PhLip 2014. Tarrytown, NY (October 2014).
• "The Structure of Communicative Acts", New Work on Speech Acts, Columbia University. New York, NY (September 2013).
• "Dynamic Expressivism and Modality", USC Deontic Modality Workshop. Los Angeles, CA (May 2013). (Poster)
• "Dynamic Expressivism about Deontic Modality", NY Philosophy of Language Workshop. New York, NY (May 2013).
• "Expressivism and the Explanatory Goals of Semantics", Andy Egan's Rutgers Seminar. New Brunswick, NJ (April 2013).
• "Comments on Ninan", Rutgers Semantics Workshop. New Brunswick, NJ (September 2012).
• "The Structure of Communicative Acts" (w/Sarah Murray), Cornell Workshop in Linguistics and Philosophy. Ithaca, NY (October 2012).
• "The Structure of Possible Worlds", Semantics Workshop, UCLA. Los Angeles, CA (May 2012).
• "A Preference Semantics for Imperatives", Workshop in Philosophy of Language and Semantics, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL (April 2012).
• "Abstraction and Semantic Explanation", Philosophy Neuroscience and Psychology Program Colloquium, Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis, MO (April 2012).
• "What If?", presented in Philipp Koralus' Language Seminar, Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis, MO (April 2012).
• "Expressing May and Must", presented at APA/ASL Dynamic Semantics Session. Washington DC (December 2011).
• "A Preference Semantics for Imperatives", presented at Mood Workshop, University at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY (Fall 2011).
• "Imperatives, Semantics and Logic", presented at International Conference on Lanugage and Value, Beijing Normal University. Beijing (Summer 2011).
• "Conditionals, Questions and Content", presented at CEU summer course on conditionals. Budapest (Summer 2009).
• Presentation of Beaver (2001: Ch.3) Presupposition and Assertion in Dynamic Semantics in a Spring 2008 philosophy dissertation reading group.
• Presentation of Malink (2006) "A Reconstruction of Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic" in a Spring 2008 independent study with Alan Code on Aristotle & Modality. (Formal Supplement)
• Presentation of Thomason (1970) "Indeterminist Time and Truth-Value Gaps" in a Spring 2008 independent study with Alan Code on Aristotle & Modality.
• Presentation of Isaacs & Rawlins (2008) "Conditional Questions" in Maria Bittner's Speech Acts seminar, Fall 2008. (Formal Supplement)
• Presentation of Veltman (2005) "Making Counterfactual Assumptions" in Maria Bittner's Conditionals seminar, Fall 2007. (I also wrote a Scheme implementation of Veltman's semantics. Code, Documentation)