Mandy Simons
Affiliated Faculty
Professor, Department of Philosophy
- BH 145H
Department of Philosophy
Pittsburgh, PA
Bio
Mandy Simons is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon Unviersity, with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on topics in linguistic pragmatics and the philosophy of language and also serves as the director of the linguistics program at 麻豆村.
Areas of Interest
- Meaning in context
- Presupposition in language and action
- Models of conversation and speech acts
- Foundations of linguistic pragmatics
- Prosodic meaning
Selected Publications
Simons, Mandy. 2025. Availability without Common Ground. Linguistics and Philosophy 48, 179–211.
Roberts, Craige and Mandy Simons. 2024. Preconditions and Projection: Explaining Non-Anaphoric Presuppositions. Linguistics and Philosophy 47, pp 703–748.
Simons, Mandy and Kevin Zollman. 2019. Natural Conventions and Indirect Speech Acts. Philosophers Imprint 19(9), pp.1-26.
Tonhauser, Judith, David Beaver, Craige Roberts and Mandy Simons. 2013. Towards a Taxonomy of Projective Content. Language 89(1), 66-109. Received Best Paper In Language Award for 2013.
Simons, Mandy. 2001. On the conversational basis of some presuppositions. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 11, 431-448, 2001. Reprinted in Capone, A. et al. (eds), Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics. Springer, 2013, 329-348.