Eric Mandelbaum

Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: Philosophy

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: eric.mandelbaum@baruch.cuny.edu

Biography
Research and Creative Activity
Grants
Honors and Awards

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC

M.A., Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC

B.A., Philosophy and English, Rutgers College, Rutgers University New Brunswick New Jersey

Books

Mandelbaum, E., & Rappaport, J. (2019). A Common Sense Introduction to Logic.

Mandelbaum, E., & Quilty-Dunn, J. The Divided Mind. Routledge. In Progress.

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

Journal Articles

Mandelbaum, E. (2024). The Border Between Seeing and Thinking, by Ned Block. Mind,

(2023). Against Implicit Bias Fatalism. Natura Reviews Psychology,

(2023). The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences. Behavioral & Brain Sciences,

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

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

(2022). How the Cognitive Science of Belief Can Transform the Study of Mental Health. JAMA Psychiatry,

(2022). “Problems and Mysteries in the Many Languages of Thought”. Cognitive Science,

Porot, N., & Mandelbaum, E. (2021). The Science of Belief: A Progress Report. WIREs Cognitive Science,

Mandelbaum, E. (2021). Everything and More: The Prospects of Whole Brain Emulation. Journal of Philosophy,

Mandelbaum, E. (2020). Associationist Theories of Thought (full rewrite/update). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,

(2020). The outlier paradox: The role of iterative ensemble coding in discounting outliers. Journal of experimental psychology; Human perception and performance, 46(11). 1267.

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,

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

Mandelbaum, E. (2019). Assimilation and Control: Belief at its Lowest Levels. Philosophical Studies,

Mandelbaum, E., Won, I., Gross, S., & Firestone, C. (2019). Can resources save rationality? ‘Anti-Bayesian’ updating in cognition and perception. Behavioral & Brain Science,

Mandelbaum, E. (2019). Modularist Explanations of Experience and Other Illusions. Consciousness and Cognition,

Mandelbaum, E., & Quilty-Dunn, J. (2017). Against Dispositionalism: Belief in Cognitive Science. Philosophical Studies, 175(9). 2353-2372.

Quilty-Dunn, J., & Mandelbaum, E. (2017). Inferential Transitions. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96(3). 532-547.

Mandelbaum, E. (2017). 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.

Fluency Alone Does Not Explain Illusory Truth. In Progress.

Disfluency Attenuates the Reception of Pseudoprofound and Postmodernist Bullshit. Thinking & Reasoning,

Book Chapters

Mandelbaum, E., & Young, S. (2023). The Sound of Slurs: A Phonoaesthetic Theory . In Knobe, J., Lombrozo, T., & Nichols, S. (Eds.), Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy Vol. 5

Mandelbaum, E., & Jenkin, Z. (2021). The Ethics of Belief. In Goetz, S., & Talliaferro, C. (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion NJ. Wiley and Sons.

Mandelbaum, E., & Bendana, J. (2019). The Fragmentation of Belief. In Borgoni, C., Kindermann, D., & Onofrio, A. (Eds.), The Fragmented Mind Oxford,UK. Oxford University Press.

Mandelbaum, E. (2018). Non-Inferential Transitions: Imagery and Association. In Nes, A., & Chen, T. (Eds.), Inference and Consciousness 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 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.

Mandelbaum, E. “The Science of Belief: A Progress Report” (expanded reprint). In Mussolino, J., Sommer, J., & Hammer, P. (Eds.), The Cognitive Science of Beliefs

Mandelbaum, E., & Porot, N. Belief: Dumb, Cold, and Cynical. In Jong, J., & Schwitzgebel, E. (Eds.), What is Belief In Progress.

Spinozan Architecture. Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief OUP. In Progress.

Believe what We Think . The Oxford Handbook of Belief

Media Contributions

Mandelbaum, E. "Consciousness Live": Whole Brain Emulatin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hBOyFoYM3I

(2018). UR Skola.

(2016). Significance.

(2015). Youtube.

(2013). The Mind Report Podcast (Bloggingheads).

(2013). Daily Dish.

(2012). The New Journal.

(2008). Raleigh News and Observer.

(2008). Psychology Today.

Presentations

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, November 14). Epistemic Chaos. U of A Colloquium. : University of Arkansas.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, April 7). Epistemic Chaos. Baruch Colloquium. New York, New York: Baruch College.

Mandelbaum, E., Zyglewicz, T., & Reuter, K. Truth Value Judgments . The European Society of Philosophy and Psychology and the Society of Philosophy and Psychology. Grenoble, France

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

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, February 20). The Best Game in Town: The Reemergence of LoT in Cognitive Science. Cambridge Colloquium. : University of Cambridge.

Mandelbaum, E. Belief & Confusion". Croatia workshop on the philosophy of language & linguistics. Dubrovnick, Croatia: Centre for Advanced Academic Studies, University of Zagreb.

Mandelbaum, E., & Ballarini, C. (2025, August 14). Doxastic Cartography. The European Society of Philosophy and Psychology and the Society of Philosophy and Psychology. Prague, Czech Republic: ESPP.

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. (2025, April 14). Prestige Bias in Science. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Conference on Publishing and Credit Sharing. Barcelona, Spain

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

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

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

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

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, July 19). SPP 2022, Milan Italy, July 19, 2022; . 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy & Psychology. Milan Italy

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, August 8). Perception and Belief: Appearances, 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 Reemergence of LoT in Cognitive Science. 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy & Psychology. Milan Italy: SPP.

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

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, June 2). Epistemic Chaos. 29th SIUCC (LOGOS). University of Barcelona

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

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

Mandelbaum, E. (2021, October 26). The best game in town: language of thought in contemporary cognitive science. London, UK: Institute of Philosophy.

Mandelbaum, E. (2025, December 3). The Best Game in Town: The Reemergence of LoT in Cognitive Science. University of Nantes 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. (2020, June 23). Representationalism vs Dispositionalism: Red Herrings. Oxford University's Department of Anthropology/ Templeton Foundation Challenge Talk Series. : University of Oxford / Templeton Foundation.

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

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

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

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 U.

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

Mandelbaum, E. (2020, March 14). Language of Thought at the Lowest Levels. 112th Meeting of the Southern Society of Philosophy & Psychology. Louisville, KT: Southern Society of Philosophy & Psychology.

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

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. 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. Colloquium. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.

Epstein, M., Quilty-Dunn, J., Mandelbaum, E., & 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. (2018, November 28). The Fragmentation of Belief. LOGOS. Barcelona, Spain: University of Barcelona.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, June 4). Seeing and Conceptualizing: Modularity and the Shallow Contents of Perception. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association. 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. University of Cambridge: Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

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

Mandelbaum, E. (2018, March 16). The Simplest Model of the Mind. Souther Society for Philosophy and Psychology. San Antonio

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

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. (2025, March 23). Guilty by Association: A Theory of Slurs. 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.

Mandelbaum, E., & Ware, J. (2025, June 14). Unconscious Activation and Inhibition of Stereotypes. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Buenos Aires, Argentina

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

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. (2016, March 16). Troubles with Bayesianism: An Introduction to the Psychological Immune System. Loyola University Colloquium (Humanities). New Orleans: Loyola 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, 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, 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, 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, December 3). Against Dispositionalism: Belief in Cognitive Science. University of Maryland. College Park: Department of Philosophy.

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. : University of Antwerp.

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

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

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, December 4). Why I'm Not a (Descriptive) Bayesian. Is the Brain Bayesian. NYU: 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. (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. (2015, February 23). Thinking Is Believing. NYU Graduate Seminar on Topics in Epistemology. New York: NYU.

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

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

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

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

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

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. Invited Talk. Toulouse, France: The Institute for Advanced Study.

Mandelbaum, E. (2013, April 26). The Psychofunctional Theory of Belief. Cognitive Science Speaker Series. 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, January 10). Implicit Bias and the Science of Belief. The Institute for Advanced Studies' Colloquium. Toulouse, FR: The Institute for Advanced Studies.

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

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

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

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

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, 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, 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 21). Attitude, Inference, Association: On the Propositional Basis of Implicit Bias. Columbia/Barnard Perception Conference. : Columbia University.

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

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

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

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

Mandelbaum, E. (2011, January 17). . 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, 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. (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 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, 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, 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, July 6). Against Alief. Annual Meeting for the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Montreal, Canada: Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

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

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

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. (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. (2009, April 3). Political Extremism and the Cognitive Sciences. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL: Political Science Association.

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

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

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., & 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, 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. (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. (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. Annual Meeting for the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Philadelphia, PA: Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

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

Mandelbaum, E., De Brigard, F., & Ripley, D. (2007, June 14). Reduction, Responsibility, and the Brain Sciences. 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. Annual Meeting of the Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology. Durham, NC 2005: Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology.

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

Mandelbaum, E., Reuter, K., & Zyglewicz, T. Folk Ontological Relativism . The European Society of Philosophy and Psychology and the Society of Philosophy and Psychology.

Mandelbaum, E., & Porot, N. Belief: Dumb, Cold, & Cynical . The European Society of Philosophy and Psychology and the Society of Philosophy and Psycholog.

Mandelbaum, E. Belief: The Primary Cognitive Relation. Conference on Fake News. : 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. The Underintellectualization of Everyday Life - Keynote. SSPP. Mobile, Alabama

Mandelbaum, E. The Underintellectualization of Everyday Life. : University of Miami.

Mandelbaum, E. The Underintellectualization of Everyday Life. UNLV.

Mandelbaum, E. The Underintellectualization of Everyday Life. : Brown University.

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

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

Other Scholarly Works

Mandelbaum, E. (2015). Associationist Theories of Thought. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/associationist-thought/

Mandelbaum, E. (2010). The Architecture of Belief: An Essay on the Unbearable Automaticity of Believing.

Mandelbaum, E., & Ballarini, C. Belief . MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.

Mandelbaum, E., & Porot, N. The Language of Thought Hypothesis. MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.

Reviews

Mandelbaum, E. (1970,January 1). Review of Ned Block’s book The Border between Seeing and Thinking. Mind. In Progress.

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.

Title	Funding Agency Sponsor	Start Date	End Date	Awarded Date	Total Funding	Status
Easy Believing	PSC-CUNY 51	07/01/2020	12/31/2022	04/17/2020	5991.15	Completed
Belief in the Modern World: Epistemic Chaos	PSC-CUNY 50	07/01/2019	12/31/2022	04/15/2019	5980	Completed
Integrated Philosophy and Science of Self-Control	Yale University	07/01/2016	06/30/2017	09/16/2016	20007	Completed
Dealing with Disconfirming Evidence: Creating Extremists through Belief Polarization	PSC-CUNY 47	07/01/2016	06/30/2017	04/15/2016	5998.8	Completed
The Psychofunctional Theory of Belief	PSC-CUNY 46	07/01/2015	06/30/2016	04/17/2015	3490.2	Completed
Anthropomorphization and the Roots of Religious Belief	PSC-CUNY 45	07/01/2014	06/30/2015	04/15/2014	3496.8	Completed
The Divided Mind	PSC CUNY 53	07/01/2022	12/31/2023	04/15/2022	6000	Funded - In Progress

Honor / Award	Organization Sponsor	Date Received	Description
Philosophers Annual		2023-09-11	Award for "one of the ten best articles published in philosophy” in 2022. For for “The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences” in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Stanton Prize from the Society for Philosophy & Psychology	Society for Philosophy & Psychology	2023-06-22	Most prestigious prize in my field. Mid career award given to one philosopher or psychologist, rotating between the fields year to year
President’s Excellence Award for Distinguished Research	Baruch College	2017	One award given per year
William Stewart Travel Award		2017	Travel to the SSPP
William Stewart Travel Award	CUNY Graduate Center	2017
Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellowship	Baruch Center for Teaching and Learning	2014	Fellowship given for bringing a new class online. One class leave granted for fall semester 2014 for doing so (and attending seminars).
Multimodality of Perception Essay Prize	University of Antwerp	2012	Prize given to the best essay on the multimodality of perception. Prize value: 1250 Euro (plus flight and hotel for prize-winning keynote lecture).
American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellowship	American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)	2011	The ACLS funded 30 postdoctoral scholarships across all disciplines. Total value of the award: $106,500 (over 2 years; only 1 year claimed).
Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior Postdoctoral Fellowship	Harvard University's Mind/Brain/Behavior Program	2011	All of the departments and members of the Mind/Brain/Behavior program (both from Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Medical School) nominate applicants for one fellowship position, approved by the Provost. I received it in January 2011, but deferred the position until August 2012. It was a multi-year, research-only position (which I left after the first year in order to come to Baruch).
Cognitive Science Society's Robert J. Glushko Dissertation Prize in Cognitive Science	Cognitive Science Society	2011	Cognitive Science Society's prize for the best dissertation written in the cognitive sciences in the last 5 years. $10,000 cash award. I was one of the 3 inaugural winners. Video interview with the winners is available here: http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/cogsci-2011/panel-1-3
Roger N. Shepard Dissertation Award in Cognitive Science	University of Arizona	2011	Award given to the best dissertation in cognitive science in the past 3 years. I was the inaugural award winner. Value: $1,000 plus a travel and lodging for keynote prize talk.
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship	Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies	2009	International Dissertation Completion Fellowship, open to graduate students in all humanities and social science disciplines. Total value: $38,000.
UNC Society of Fellows, Thomas S. and Helen Borda Royster and Snowden and Elspeth Merck Henry Distinguished Dissertation Award	University of North Carolina Society of Fellows	2009	University-wide dissertation completion fellowship. Only 6 fellows selected each year. Total value: $28,500 (monetary component denied, award and responsibilities upheld).
Midwest Political Science Association Travel Fellowship	Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA)	2009	Graduate student award given to travel and present a paper at the MPSA's yearly meeting. Award value: $500.
Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Graduate Travel Stipend	American Philosophical Association (APA)	2008	Award given to best graduate student-submitted paper in order to cover travel to the conference. Award value: $500.
Henry Horace Williams Fellowship	UNC Chapel Hill Department of Philosophy	2008	Departmental fellowship for relief of teaching. Award value: $16,500.
University of North Carolina Graduate School Transportation Grant	UNC Chapel Hill	2008	Award given to graduate students to present a paper at a major conference. Award intended to cover travel and lodging. Award value: $800.
Henry Horace Williams Fellowship	UNC Chapel Hill Department of Philosophy	2003	Award given for relief of teaching. Total value: $15,500.