Eric Mandelbaum

Books

Mandelbaum, E. (2025). The Divided Mind. Routledge. In Progress.

Mandelbaum, E. (2024). A Psychofunctional Theory of Belief. Oxford University Press. In Progress.

Mandelbaum, E., & Rappaport, J. (2019). A Common Sense Introduction to Logic. This text was funded by a grant to produce Open Educational Resources to the students of Baruch College. It is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 USA..

Journal Articles

Schwartz, E., Pion, G., Quilty-Dunn, J., Mandelbaum, E., & Caplan, S. (2025). Polysemy and Inference: Reasoning with Underspecified Representations. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,

Kurdi, B., Weinreich, Z., Dunham, Y., & Mandelbaum, E. (2025). Logical operations shape the formation of implicit attitudes: Evidence from the negation of bipolar and unipolar adjectives. Open Mind,

Tracy, R., Porot, N., Young, S., & Mandelbaum, E. (2023). Disfluency Attenuates the Reception of Pseudoprofound and Postmodernist Bullshit. Thinking & Reasoning, 30(4). 579-611.

Quilty-Dunn, J., Porot, N., & Mandelbaum, E. (2023). The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 46(e261). 1-55.

(2023). The Case Against Implicit Bias Fatalism. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1. 656–657.

(2023). The Language of Thought as a Working Hypothesis in Cognitive Science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46. e292.

Mandelbaum, E. (2022). Everything and More: The Prospects of Whole Brain Emulation. Journal of Philosophy, 119(8). 444-459.

(2022). How the Cognitive Science of Belief Can Transform the Study of Mental Health. JAMA Psychiatry, 80(1). 8-9.

Mandelbaum, E., Dunham, Y., Feiman, R., Firestone, C., Green, E., Harris, D., Kibbe, M., Kurdi, B., Mylopoulos, M., Shepherd, J., Wellwood, A., Porot, N., & Quilty-Dunn, J. (2022). Problems and Mysteries in the Many Languages of Thought. Cognitive Science, 46(12). e13225.

Mandelbaum, E. (2020). Assimilation and Control: Belief at its Lowest Levels. Philosophical Studies, 177. 441–447.

Mandelbaum, E., Won, I., Gross, S., & Firestone, C. (2020). Can Resources Save Rationality? ‘Anti-Bayesian’ Updating in Cognition and Perception. Behavioral & Brain Science, 43. e16.

Epstein, M., Quilty-Dunn, J., Mandelbaum, E., & Emmanouil, T. (2020). The Outlier Paradox: The Role of Iterative Ensemble Coding in Discounting Outliers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 46(11). 1267–1279.

Porot, N., & Mandelbaum, E. (2020). The Science of Belief: A Progress Report. WIREs Cognitive Science, 12(2). 1-17.

Mandelbaum, E. (2019). Troubles with Bayesianism: An Introduction to the Psychological Immune System. Mind and Language, 34(2). 141-157.

Mandelbaum, E. (2019). Modularist Explanations of Experience and Other Illusions. Consciousness and Cognition, 76(2). 1-4.

Quilty-Dunn, J., & Mandelbaum, E. (2018). Inferential Transitions. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96(3). 532-547.

Quilty-Dunn, J., & Mandelbaum, E. (2018). Against Dispositionalism: Belief in Cognitive Science. Philosophical Studies, 175(9). 2353-2372.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018). Seeing and Conceptualizing: Modularity and the Shallow Contents of Vision. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 97(2). 267-283.

Mandelbaum, E. (2016). Attitude, Inference, Association: On the Propositional Structure of Implicit Bias. Nous, 50(3). 629-658.

Quilty-Dunn, J., & Mandelbaum, E. (2015). Believing without Reason, or: Why Liberals Shouldn’t Watch Fox News. Harvard Review of Philosophy, 22. 42-52.

Mandelbaum, E. (2014). The Automatic and the Ballistic: Modularity Beyond Perceptual Processes. Philosophical Psychology, 28(8). 1147-1156.

Mandelbaum, E. (2013). Numerical Architecture. Topics in Cognitive Science, 5(2). 367-386.

Mandelbaum, E. (2013). Thinking Is Believing. Inquiry, 57(1). 55-96.

Mandelbaum, E. (2013). Against Alief. Philosophical Studies, 165(1). 197-211.

Mandelbaum, E., & Ripley, D. W. (2012). Explaining the Abstract/Concrete Paradoxes in Moral Psychology: NBAR Theory. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 3(3). 351-368.

Mandelbaum, E. (2011). What Is the Narrow Content of FENCE (and other Definitionally and Interpretationally Primitive Concepts?). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34(3). 138.

Bruno, M., & Mandelbaum, E. (2010). Locke’s Answer to Molyneux’s Thought Experiment. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 27(2). 165-180.

Mandelbaum, E., & Ripley, D. W. (2010). Expectations and Morality: A Dilemma. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(4). 346.

De Brigard, F., Mandelbaum, E., & Ripley, D. W. (2008). Responsibility and the Brain Sciences. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 12(5). 511-524.

Rationalism and Circularity in Concept Learning. Analysis, In Progress.

Book Chapters

Mandelbaum, E., & Porot, N. (2025). Belief: Dumb, Cold, and Cynical. What is Belief? Oxford University Press.

Pion, G., Schwartz, E., & Mandelbaum, E. (2025). Believe What We Think!: The Spinozan Theory of Mind. In Lombrozo, T., & van Leeuwen, N. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief Oxford University Press.

Mandelbaum, E., & Young, S. (2024). The Sound of Slurs: A Phonoaesthetic Theory. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy Vol. 5 (p. 221–246). Oxford, UK. Oxford Academic.

Porot, N. (2022). The Science of Belief: A Progress Report (expanded reprint). In Mandelbaum, E. (Ed.), The Cognitive Science of Belief: A Multidisciplinary Approach (pp. 55-91). Cambridge University Press.

Mandelbaum, E., & Bendana, J. (2021). The Fragmentation of Belief. The Fragmented Mind (p. 78–107). Oxford, UK. Oxford University Press.

Mandelbaum, E., & Quilty-Dunn, J. (2019). Non-Inferential Transitions: Imagery and Association. In Nes, A., & Chen, T. (Eds.), Inference and Consciousness (pp. 151-171). London: Routledge. Routledge Press.

Prinz, J. J., & Mandelbaum, E. (2014). Poetic Opacity: How to Paint Things with Words. In Gibson, J. (Ed.), The Philosophy of Poetry (pp. 63-87). Oxford, Oxfordshire,England. Oxford University Press.

Levy, N., & Mandelbaum, E. (2014). The Powers That Bind: Doxastic Voluntarism and Epistemic Obligation. In Matheson, J., & Vitz, R. (Eds.), The Ethics of Belief (pp. 12-33). Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Oxford University Press.

Phelan, M., Mandelbaum, E., & Nichols, S. (2012). Brain Damage and Dualism. In Allhoff, F., Mallon, R., & Nichols, S. (Eds.), Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Readings (pp. 212-216). New York, NY,NY. Oxford University Press.

Phelan, M., & Mandelbaum, E. (2012). A Potted History of Mental States. In Allhoff, F., Mallon, R., & Nichols, S. (Eds.), Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Readings (pp. 193-202). New York, NY,USA. Oxford University Press.

Presentations

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, March 7). Polysemy & the Granularity of Thought. Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Davis.

Mandelbaum, E. Processing Recapitulates Phylogeny. Budapest CEU Preconference on Cognitive Development. Budapest, Hungary

Mandelbaum, E. Agency detection in infants. NYU Florence.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, March 7). Polysemy & the Granularity of Thought. Jowett Society, Oxford University Department of Philosophy Colloquium..

Mandelbaum, E. Domain-General Negation in Infant Reasoning. Yale/CUNY University Workshop on the Development of Reasoning. New Haven: Yale University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, November 7). Belief: Lumpers & Splitters. Department Colloquium, University of Arkansas.

Mandelbaum, E., Zyglewicz, T., & Reuter, K. (2025, July 12). Folk Ontological Relativism. 5th European Experimental Philosophy Conference. Norwich, UK: University of East Anglia.

Mandelbaum, E., Schwartz, E., Pion, G., Caplan, S., & Quilty-Dunn, J. (2025, July 30). Polysemy and Inference. CogSci2025 Conference. San Fransisco, CA, USA

Mandelbaum, E., Schwartz, E., Pion, G., Caplan, S., & Quilty-Dunn, J. (2025, October 24). Polysemy and Inference (Poster Presentation). 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy & Psychology. Cornell University

Mandelbaum, E., Schwartz, E., Pion, G., Caplan, S., & Quilty-Dunn, J. (2025, September 2). Polysemy and Inference. 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Mandelbaum, E., Mukherji, M., & Rhodes, M. (2025, July 30). Mechanisms of Belief Formation in Childhood (Poster Presentation). 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy & Psychology. Cornell University

Mandelbaum, E., Schwartz, E., Pion, G., Caplan, S., & Quilty-Dunn, J. (2025, July 12). Polysemy and Inference. Experimental Argument Analysis. East Anglia, UK

Mandelbaum, E. The Underintellectualization of Everyday Life - Keynote. 116th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Mobile, Alabama

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, February 7). The Underintellectualization of Everyday Life. University of Miami Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami.

Mandelbaum, E., Vasil, J., Pion, G., Schwartz, E., & Rhodes, M. Essentialism and Memory Asymmetry Effects of Generics and Quantifiers. UMass Essentialism Conference. UMass Amherst, W245 South College: UMass Amherst.

Mandelbaum, E. Inference in Unexpected Places, invited symposium at the 2025 ESPP, Polish Institute of Advanced Studies, Warsaw Poland, September 3, 2025. (Other Speakers: Liuba Papeo, Benedek Kurdi, Barbara Pomiechowska). European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Warsaw, Poland: ESPP.

Mandelbaum, E., Caplan, S., Pion, G., & Schwartz, E. Title: The Uncommon Sense Effect and Reasoning without Reference. NYU Semantics Colloquium.

Mandelbaum, E., Kurdi, B., Dunham, Y., & Weinrich, Z. The Sensitivity of Implicit Attitude Formation to Negation: Evidence from the Bipolar–Unipolar Distinction. 51st Annual Meeting of the Society of Philosophy & Psychology. Cornell University

Mandelbaum, E. Inference in Unexpected Places. 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Warsaw, Poland: Polish Institute of Advanced Studies.

Mandelbaum, E. Perspectives as Mini-Theories. Princeton University Center for Human Values.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, April 16). Epistemic Chaos (Ruth Prinz O'Hara '52 Inaugural Lecture). Understanding Antisemitism in Local and Global Contexts. New York, New York: Baruch College.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, December 3). Why Being on Social Media is Like Driving Through the Fog. Weismann Faculty Meeting. New York, NY: Weismann School of Arts and Sciences.

Mandelbaum, E., Zyglewicz, T., & Reuter, K. Truth Value Judgments . 31st Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Grenoble, France

Mandelbaum, E., Reuter, K., & Zyglewicz, T. Folk Ontological Relativism. 31st Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E., & Porot, N. Belief: Dumb, Cold, & Cynical. 31st Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. The Underintellectualization of Everyday Life. Brown University Thought and Language Conference. Providence, RI: Brown University.

Mandelbaum, E. The Underintellectualization of Everyday Life. UNLV Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Las Vegas: UNLV Department of Philosophy.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, November 7). Epistemic Chaos. Tulane University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. : Tulane University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, February 20). The Best Game in Town: The Reemergence of LoT in Cognitive Science. Moral Sciences Club (Department of Philosophy Colloquium). Cambridge, UK: University of Cambridge.

Mandelbaum, E. The Underintellectualization of Everyday Life. : Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, February 7). Belief: The Primary Cognitive Relation. Conference on Fake News. Rabat, Morocco: Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.

Mandelbaum, E. The Best Game in Town: The Reemergence of the Language of Thought across the Cognitive Sciences. NYU Colloquium. New York: New York University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, July 13). The Best Game in Town: The Reemergence of LoT in Cognitive Science. University of Nantes, Department of Linguistics Workshop on Language of Thought. Nantes: University of Nantes, Department of Linguistics.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, June 22). Epistemic Chaos - Stanton Prize Lecture. 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy & Psychology. Pittsburgh, PA: SPP.

Mandelbaum, E. Taxonomizing Languages of Thought. Susan Carey's Graduate Seminar at Harvard University on the Language of Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Mandelbaum, E. On Maximalism: Do Everything. Social Cognition and Identities in the Desert Workshop. Palm Springs, CA: University of California, Irvine.

Mandelbaum, E., & Ballarini, C. (2025, August 7). Doxastic Cartography. 30th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Prague, Czech Republic: ESPP.

Mandelbaum, E. LoT in Contemporary Cognitive Science. NYU Mind & Brain Graduate Seminar (instructors: Matthias Michel & Ned Block).

Mandelbaum, E. The Best Game in Town: The Reemergence of the Language of Thought across the Cognitive Sciences. Rutgers Colloquium. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Philosophy Department.

Mandelbaum, E. Belief & Confusion. Croatia Workshop on the Philosophy of Language & Linguistics. Dubrovnick, Croatia: Centre for Advanced Academic Studies, University of Zagreb.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, April 7). Prestige Bias in Science. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Conference on Publishing and Credit Sharing. Barcelona, Spain

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, November 4). Epistemic Chaos. Washington University of St Louis Colloquium. PNP (Psych, Neuroscience, Philosophy) Department Colloquium: PNP.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, August 8). Belief Acquisition and the Perception/ Cognition Divide. Workshop on “Mind, Language, and Social Change”.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, July 19). The Best Game in Town: The Language of Thought in Contemporary Cognitive Science. 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Milan, Italy

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, October 21). The Best Game in Town: The Reemergence of LoT in Cognitive Science. Cornell Colloquium. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.

Mandelbaum, E. The Best Game in Town: The Reemergence of LoT in Cognitive Science. LOGOS Colloquium. University of Barcelona

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, June 12). The Future of Belief. Princeton University Templeton Workshop on Belief. Princeton University

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, July 19). The Best Game in Town: The Reemergence of LoT in Cognitive Science. 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Milan Italy: SPP.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, June 2). Epistemic Chaos. 29th SIUCC (Seminario Interuniversitario de Ciencia Cognitiva/Inter-University Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science) (LOGOS). University of Barcelona

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, October 11). The Future of Belief. Institute of Philosophy, University of London Colloquium. Institute of Philosophy, University of London

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, June 30). Spinoza’s Return: Illusory Truth, Fluency, and the Psychological Signatures of Belief. 47th Annual Society for Philosophy & Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, June 30). Spinoza’s Return: Illusory Truth, Fluency, and the Psychological Signatures of Belief. Perception and Belief: Appearances, Belief Acquisition, and the Perception/ Cognition Divide. Ruhr University Bochum

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, December 3). The Best Game in Town: The Reemergence of LoT in Cognitive Science. University of Nantes, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Nantes

Mandelbaum, E. (2021, September 21). Belief and the Language of Thought. Rutgers University Center of Cognitive Science Seminar on Belief. : Rutgers University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2021, October 26). The Best Game in Town: the Language of Thought in Contemporary Cognitive Science. Institute of Philosophy, University of London Colloquium. London, UK: Institute of Philosophy.

Mandelbaum, E. Belief: The Primary Cognitive Relation. : College de France.

Mandelbaum, E. (2020, March 5). The Fragmentation of Belief. Department Colloquium, Princeton University. Princeton University, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Cognitive Science Program.

Mandelbaum, E. (2020, March 14). The Fragmentation of Belief. 112th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society of Philosophy & Psychology. Louisville, KT: Southern Society of Philosophy & Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2020, July 22). Belief Acquisition: The State of the Art. Oxford University's Department of Anthropology/Oxford Belief Workshop. Templeton Foundation Challenge Talk Series: Oxford University's Department of Anthropology/ Templeton Foundation.

Mandelbaum, E. (2020, April 8). Why There Still Has to be a Language of Thought. Computational Models of Mind Seminar. : Columbia University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2020, June 16). Cross-Cultural Believing. Oxford University's Department of Anthropology/ Templeton Foundation Challenge Talk Series. : Templeton/ Oxford.

Epstein, M. L., Quity Dunn, J., Mandelbaum, E., & Emmanouil, T. (2020, June 19). The Outlier Paradox: The Role of Iterative Ensemble Coding in Discounting Outliers. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting. Virtual: VSS.

Mandelbaum, E. (2020, February 14). Troubles with Bayesianism. University of Maryland Department of Philosophy Colloquium. College Park, Maryland: Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland.

Mandelbaum, E. (2020, June 23). Iconicity beyond Vision: Slurs, Triggers and Vlocks. Mind, Language, and Logic Talk Series. : University of Southern California.

Mandelbaum, E. (2020, June 29). Developmental Trajectory of Belief. Oxford University's Department of Anthropology/ Templeton Foundation Challenge Talk Series. : Oxford U and Templeton.

Mandelbaum, E. (2020, July 2). Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: 1 State or 2. Oxford University's Department of Anthropology/ Templeton Foundation Challenge Talk Series. : Templeton/ Oxford University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2020, July 6). Religious Beliefs are Regular Beliefs. Oxford University's Department of Anthropology/ Templeton Foundation Challenge Talk Series. : Templeton/ Oxford University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2020, March 5). The Logical Structure of Unconscious Thought. Princeton Cognitive Science Colloquium. Princeton NJ: Princeton Neuroscience Institute.

Mandelbaum, E. (2020, June 23). Representationalism vs Dispositionalism: Red Herrings. Oxford University's Department of Anthropology/ Templeton Foundation Challenge Talk Series. : University of Oxford / Templeton Foundation.

Mandelbaum, E. (2019, May 6). Ideal Cognition. Yale Experimental Philosophy Laboratory. New Haven: Yale University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2019, July 24). Troubles with Bayesianism: Bayes and the Computational Theory of Mind. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Peru/University of Southern California NSF Workshop. Lima, Peru: National Science Foundation.

Mandelbaum, E. (2019, October 1). Dispositions? Boo! Representations? Yay!. Department Colloquium. Antwerp, Belgium: Centre for Philosophical Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2019, October 7). The Fragmentation of Belief. Automaticity and Bias in Thought & Action. Dortmund, Germany: Technical University Dortmund.

Mandelbaum, E. (2019, October 10). Troubles with Bayesianism. Bayesians: Current Topics in Cognitive Science. Bochum, Germany: Ruhr-University Bochum.

Epstein, M., Mandelbaum, E., Quilty-Dunn, J., & Emmanouil, T. (2019, November 15). The Outlier Paradox: The Role of Iterative Ensemble Coding in Discounting Outliers. 60th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Montreal, CA

Mandelbaum, E. (2019, April 4). The Fragmentation of Belief. University of Michigan Cognitive Science Colloquium. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, February 15). Troubles with Bayesianism: An Introduction to the Psychological Immune System. Weismann Global Seminar. : Baruch College, CUNY.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, March 16). The Simplest Model of the Mind. 110th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology. San Antonio

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, March 12). Epistemic Chaos. Science Studies Seminar. CUNY Graduate Center

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, February 17). Troubles with Bayesianism. University of California, Santa Barbara, Conference on Belief. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California, Santa Barbara.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, February 15). Learning One Thing and Believing Another. Weismann Global Seminar. : Baruch College, CUNY.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, February 13). Eating Plants. Science Studies Workshop. : Graduate Center.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, June 4). Seeing and Conceptualizing: Modularity and the Shallow Contents of Perception. Canadian Philosophical Association 2018 Meeting. Montreal, Canada: Canadian Philosophical Association.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, June 6). Comments on Dylan Ludwig’s “The Psychological Mechanisms of Implicit Bias”. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association. Montreal, Canada: Canadian Philosophical Association.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, June 7). This House Believes that Human Minds are Special. Varieties of Mind Workshop, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. University of Cambridge: Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, June 8). The Simplest Model of the Mind. Varieties of Mind. University of Cambridge: Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, November 13). Epistemic Chaos. Institute of Philosophy, Colloquium. London, UK: University of London.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, November 27). The Fragmentation of Belief. Centre for Philosophical Psychology Colloquium. Antwerp, Belgium: University of Antwerp.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, November 28). Fragmentation of Belief. LOGOS Colloquium. Barcelona, Spain: University of Barcelona.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, April 19). Propaganda and Cognitive Architecture. Belief Default Symposium. St. Paul, Minnesota: Hamline University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, November 28). The Fragmentation of Belief. LOGOS Colloquium. Barcelona, Spain: University of Barcelona.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, March 23). Guilty by Association: A Theory of Slurs. 109th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Savannah, GA: SSPP.

Mandelbaum, E. (2017, April 7). Troubles with Bayesianism: An Introduction to the Psychological Immune System. University of Cincinnati Department Colloquium. : University of Cincinnati Department of Philosophy.

Mandelbaum, E. (2017, March 29). Cognitive Science and Taking the Broad View. CUNY Visiting Prospective Student Day. : CUNY GC Philosophy Department.

Mandelbaum, E. (2017, March 29). The Future of Empirical Philosophy of Mind. Philosophy Department Prospective's Day. New York: CUNY Graduate Center.

Mandelbaum, E. (2017, February 13). Troubles with Bayesianism: an Introduction to the Psychological Immune System. Bard College Colloquium. : Bard College.

Ware, J., Mandelbaum, E., & Young, S. (2017, July 8). Guilty by Association: An Analysis of Slurs. 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology. Granada, Spain: European Association of Social Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2017, December 15). Troubles with Bayesianism. Thinking about Thinking, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Stockholm, Sweden: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Mandelbaum, E. (2016, December 3). Against Dispositionalism: Belief in Cognitive Science. University of Maryland. College Park: Department of Philosophy.

Mandelbaum, E. (2016, October 25). The Associative Theory of Slurs. Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology. : Icahn School of Medicine Bioethics Program, Mt Sinai Medical Center.

Mandelbaum, E. (2016, July 28). Seeing and Conceptualizing: Modularity and the Shallow Contents of Vision. International Congress of Psychology 2016 Conference. Yokohama, Japan: International Congress of Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2016, July 7). Seeing and Conceptualizing: Modularity and the Shallow Contents of Vision. National Endowment of the Humanities Conference on Bayesian Theories of Perception and Epistemology. Ithaca, NY: NEH (Cornell University/Harvard University).

Mandelbaum, E. (2016, May 19). Arationality and Belief. Conference on Intuitions and Beliefs. Antwerp, Belgium: University of Antwerp's Centre for Philosophical Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2016, March 16). Troubles with Bayesianism: An Introduction to the Psychological Immune System. Loyola University Colloquium (Humanities). New Orleans: Loyola University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2016, March 3). Troubles with Bayesianism: An Introduction to the Psychological Immune System. CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Colloquium. CUNY Graduate Center: CUNY Department of Philosophy.

Mandelbaum, E., & Ware, J. (2025, June 7). Unconscious Activation and Inhibition of Stereotypes. 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

Mandelbaum, E. Guilty by Association: A Theory of Slurs. Icahn School of Medicine. : Mt Sinai Medical Center.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, May 19). Troubles with Bayesianism: An Introduction to the Psychological Immune System. Centre for Philosophical Psychology and European Network for Sensory Research. Antwerp, Belgium: University of Antwerp.

Mandelbaum, E. (2015, February 23). Thinking Is Believing. NYU Graduate Seminar on Topics in Epistemology. New York: NYU.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, December 4). Troubles with Bayesianism: An Introduction to the Psychological Immune System. “Is the Brain Bayesian?” Conference. New York University: NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, February 27). Fragmented Cognition and the Web of Belief. Marist College Colloquium. Poughkeepsie, NY: Marist College.

Mandelbaum, E. (2015, February 20). Affect, Political Reasoning, and the Self. Politics and Affect. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Society for the Humanities.

Mandelbaum, E. (2015, February 27). Ask Yourself Again: On Fragmented Central Cognition. Marist College Colloquium (Joint Philosophy and Psychology). Poughkeepsie, NY: Marist College.

Mandelbaum, E. (2015, May 26). Unconscious Logic. Conference on the Implicit Mind. Stockholm, Sweden: Institute for Future Studies.

Mandelbaum, E., & Quilty-Dunn, J. (2015, May 4). Inferential Transitions. NYU Consciousness Discussion Group. NYU: NYU Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness.

Mandelbaum, E. (2015, March 5). Belief and Agency. Harvard University Graduate Seminar on Philosophical Psychology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University's Department of Philosophy.

Mandelbaum, E. (2015, July 26). Why I'm Not a (Descriptive) Bayesian. National Science Foundation Conference on Bayesian Theories of Perception and Epistemology. Ithaca, NY: NSF and Cornell University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, March 28). The Best Game in Town: The Reemergence of LoT in Cognitive Science. Pompeu Fabra University Colloquium. : University Pompeu Fabra.

Mandelbaum, E. (2014, June 19). Implicit Attitudes Are Not Associations. 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Vancouver, Canada: Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2014, January 23). The Structure of Implicit Attitudes. Social Cognitive Development Lab Talk. New Haven, CT: Social Cognitive Development Lab, Yale Department of Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2014, February 6). The Propositional Structure of Implicit Bias. 106th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Charleston, SC: Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP).

Mandelbaum, E. (2014, April 4). Reasoning and Racism. Jerome Balmuth Annual Speaker Series. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2014, April 21). Circularity in Bootstrapping: Lessons from the Numerical Cognition (a public debate with Susan Carey on number concept acquisition). Harvard University's Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative Conversation Series. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Mind/Brain/Behavior Program.

Mandelbaum, E. (2014, May 2). Unconscious Logic. New Directions in Empirically Informed Philosophy. New York, NY: Florida Atlantic University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2014, November 24). There Are No Aliefs. Florida State University's Graduate Speaker Series. Tallahasee, FL: Florida State.

Mandelbaum, E. (2014, June 13). Fragmented Cognition and the Web of Belief. Emerging Ideas Colloquium, Jean Nicod Institute. Paris, France: Jean Nicod Institute, Ecole Normale Superiore.

Mandelbaum, E. (2014, June 10). Reasoning and Racism: On the Propositional Structure of Implicit Attitudes. Experimental Philosophy Colloquium, Jean Nicod Institute. Paris, France: Jean Nicod Institute, Ecole Normale Superiore.

Mandelbaum, E. (2014, May 30). Slurs as Verbal Viruses. Lawrence University Workshop on "Metaphors, Promises, Slurs, and Jokes". Appleton, Wisconsin: Lawrence University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2013, April 26). The Psychofunctional Theory of Belief. CUNY Graduate Center Cognitive Science Symposium. New York, NY: CUNY Graduate Center.

Mandelbaum, E. (2013, October 24). Explaining Implicit Racism. Weismann Brown Bag Series Talk. Baruch College, NY: Weismann School of Arts and Sciences.

Mandelbaum, E. (2013, December 28). Comments on Dan Greco's "Fragmentation and Iteration". Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Baltimore, MD: American Philosophical Association (APA).

Mandelbaum, E. (2013, February 1). Reasoning and Racism. University of Wisconsin's Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, Department of Philosophy.

Mandelbaum, E. (2013, April 5). The Development of Bias. Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA: Department of Psychology, Harvard University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, January 10). Reasoning and Racism: On the Propositional Structure of Implicit Attitudes. The Institute for Advanced Study Colloquium. Toulouse, France: The Institute for Advanced Study.

Mandelbaum, E. (2012, December 2). Comments on Emily Balcetis’ "Social Distance". Workshop on the Effects of Cognition on Perception. New York University, New York: New York University Center for Mind and Brain.

Mandelbaum, E. (2012, October 15). Psychofunctional Theory of Belief. Harvard Graduate Seminar on Belief. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2012, March 3). Thinking Is Believing: Automatic Belief Acquisition and the Web of Belief. Inaugural Keynote for the Roger Shepard Dissertation Prize in Cognitive Science. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

Mandelbaum, E. (2012, July 13). Attitude, Inference, Association: On the Propositional Basis of Implicit Bias. Implicit Bias and Philosophy: The Ethical and Political Implications of Implicit Bias. Sheffield, UK: Implicit Bias and Philosophy International Research Project.

Mandelbaum, E. (2012, July 21). Attitude, Inference, Association: On the Propositional Basis of Implicit Bias. Columbia University/Barnard College Perception Conference. New York, NY: Columbia University/Barnard College.

Mandelbaum, E. (2012, September 8). Creativity and Changes in Associative Strength. Mind/Brain/Behavior Proseminar on Sleep and Psychosis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2012, September 15). Discussion on Belief Across Disciplinary Boundaries. Harvard University Workshop on Belief. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2012, September 19). The Development of Bias. Yale Developmental Psychology Speaker Series. New Haven, CT: Yale University Department of Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2012, October 1). NBAR and the Attribution of Agency. Experimental Philosophy Lab, Yale University. New Haven, CT: Department of Cognitive Science, Yale University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2011, July 6). Against Alief. 37th Annual Meeting for the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Montreal, Canada: Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2011, May 8). Implicit Attitudes as Beliefs: Or Three Ways of Being Prejudicial. 7th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication: Moral Psychology and the Cognitive Sciences Conference. Riga, Latvia: University of Latvia.

Mandelbaum, E. (2011, January 14). Panel Discussion on Non-Standard Concepts of Intelligence. Non-Standard Concepts of Intelligence. Oxford, UK: Oxford University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2011, January 15). Discussion of Tim Bayne's "Unity of Consciousness". Symposium on Tim Bayne's "Unity of Consciousness". Oxford, UK: Oxford University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2011, January 16). Conference Introduction: Past and Future of Superintelligence. The Future of Machine Intelligence. Oxford, UK: Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford.

Mandelbaum, E. (2011, January 17). Motivation and Superintelligence. Intelligence Explosion: Groundwork for a Strategic Analysis. Oxford, UK: Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford.

Mandelbaum, E. (2011, February 2). Ballistic Belief Acquisition. Harvard University Graduate Seminar on Perception and Action. Cambridge, MA: Department of Philosophy, Harvard University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2011, February 3). Sensible Central Systems. Harvard University Graduate Seminar on Belief. Cambridge, MA: Department of Philosophy, Harvard University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2011, March 9). Belief: Storage and Acquisition. Oxford Martin 21st Century School Speaker Series. Oxford, UK: Oxford Marin 21st Century School, Oxford University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2011, February 23). Comments on Graham Wood’s "Morals, Modules, and Metaphysics". Oxford Martin Advanced Research Seminar. Oxford, UK: Oxford Marin 21st Century School, Oxford University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2011, February 9). A Psychofunctional Theory of Belief. Georgia State University's Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Atlanta, GA: Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2011, February 5). Discussant on Bias and Representational Structure. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies Exploratory Workshop: Predictions, Goals, Stereotypes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2011, February 4). A Psychofunctional Theory of Belief. Harvard University Philosophy Conference: Belief and Its Cousins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University's Department of Philosophy.

Mandelbaum, E. (2010, May 22). The Performance/Competence Distinction in Moral Psychology. Metro Experimental Research Group. New York University, New York: MERG.

Mandelbaum, E. (2010, April 15). Comments on Erik Wielenberg’s 'Can Sociopaths Make Moral Judgments?'. Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Atlanta, GA: American Philosophical Association (APA).

Mandelbaum, E. (2010, December 3). There Are No Aliefs. St. Catherine's College Colloquium. Oxford, UK: St. Catherine's College, Oxford University.

Mandelbaum, E. (2010, December 1). Comments on Richard Menary’s "Cognitive Niche Construction: Somewhere Between Scaffolding and Extension". Oxford Martin Advanced Research Seminar. Oxford, UK: Oxford Marin 21st Century School, Oxford Univeristy.

Mandelbaum, E. (2010, November 20). Comments on Sam Wilkinson’s "Egocentric Judgments, Encyclopedic Beliefs, and Delusional Assertions". Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference. Oxford, UK: Oxford University.

Mandelbaum, E., & Ripley, D. W. (2010, June 17). Knowing Who’s Responsible: The Cognitive Causes of Affect in Moral Psychology. Jean Nicod Institute, Ecole Normale Superiore Cognitive Science Colloquium. Paris, FR: Jean Nicod Institute, Ecole Normale Superiore.

Mandelbaum, E. (2010, January 6). Thinking is Believing. University of Waterloo's Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Waterloo, CA: University of Waterloo's Department of Philosophy.

Mandelbaum, E. (2009, November 30). Making Sense of Motivational Defects. UNC Law School Seminar on Rationality and Addiction. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Law School.

Mandelbaum, E., & Ripley, D. W. (2009, November 8). Explaining the Abstract/Concrete Paradoxes in Moral Psychology. Arche/ Center for the Study of Mind in Nature Graduate Conference. St. Andrews, Scotland: Arch/ CSMN.

Mandelbaum, E. (2009, October 2). Explaining the Abstract/Concrete Paradoxes in Moral Psychology. Experimental Epistemology Research Group Graduate Conference. Buffalo, NY: Experimental Epistemology Research Group.

Mandelbaum, E. (2009, September 24). NBAR and the Attribution of Agency. Metro Experimental Research Group. CUNY Graduate Center: MERG.

Mandelbaum, E. (2009, June 12). Explaining the Abstract/Concrete Paradoxes in Moral Psychology. 35th Annual Meeting for the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Bloomington, IN: Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2009, April 3). Political Extremism and the Cognitive Sciences. Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual Conference. Chicago, IL: Political Science Association.

Mandelbaum, E. (2008, December 30). Comments on Daniel Demetriou’s "An Intuitionist Deontologist Reply to Greene: The Heart Has Its Reasons". Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Philadelphia, PA: APA.

Mandelbaum, E. (2008, June 27). Responsibility, Blame, and the Belief in a Good World. 34th Annual Meeting for the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Philadelphia, PA: Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2008, May 4). The Myth of Political Extremism. 20th Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Washington, DC: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry.

Mandelbaum, E., & De Brigard, F. (2008, April 18). Neuroscience and Responsibility. Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Chicago, IL: APA.

Mandelbaum, E., & De Brigard, F. (2008, April 10). Reduction, Responsibility, and the Brain Sciences. Mind, Brain, Experience: At the Intersections of Philosophy, Science, and Medicine. Denver, CO: University of Colorado, Denver.

Mandelbaum, E., & Ripley, D. W. (2008, March 20). Reduction, Responsibility, and the Brain Sciences. 10th Anniversary Meeting for Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Blaise Pascal Institute at the Vrije University.

Mandelbaum, E., De Brigard, F., & Ripley, D. (2007, June 14). Reduction, Responsibility, and the Brain Sciences. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Toronto, Canada: Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2007, June 15). Numerical Architecture. 33rd Annual Meeting for the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Toronto, Canada: Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E. (2005, March 24). Original Accumulators and the Origin of Number. 97th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Durham, NC 2005: Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Mukherji, M., Rhodes, M., & Mandelbaum, E. Children’s Memory for Rejected Statements: Distinguishing the Effects of Negation from Denial. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development. Budapest, Hungary

Mukherji, M., Mandelbaum, E., & Rhodes, M. Children's memory for rejected statements: distinguishing the ef ects of negation from denial. Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston University, Boston MA

Other Scholarly Works

Reviews

Mandelbaum, E. (1970,January 1). Developing Theories of Development: The Building Blocks of Thought: A Rationalist Account of the Origins of Concepts (by Stephen Laurence & Eric Margolis). In Progress.

Mandelbaum, E. (1970,January 1). Seeing Between a Rock & a Hard Place: The Border Between Seeing and Thinking, by Ned Block. Mind. Mind Association.

Mandelbaum, E., & Huebner, B. (2012,February 22). Review of The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science. South Bend, Indiana,USA: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

Research Currently in Progess

Mandelbaum, E.(n.d.). Antisemitic implicit and explicit attitudes in America: The Jon Stewart Effect. In Progress.

Mandelbaum, E.(n.d.). Antisemitism in the Middle East before and after the Syrian Civil War. In Progress.

Mandelbaum, E., & Rhodes, M.(n.d.). The Development of Anti-Semitic Attitudes. In Progress.

Mandelbaum, E.(n.d.). Epistemic Chaos. In Progress.

Mandelbaum, E.(n.d.). Underintellectualization of Everyday Life: Against Resource Rationality. In Progress.

Mandelbaum, E., Pion, G., & Schwartz, E.(n.d.). Belief Strength. In Progress.