Epistemic modality

Epistemic modality / edited by Andy Egan and Brian Weatherson.

There's a lot we don't know, which means that there are a lot of possibilities that are, epistemically speaking, open. What these epistemic possibilities are, and how we understand the semantics of epistemic modals, are explored here through a variety of philosophical approaches.

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Other Authors: Egan, Andy, Weatherson, Brian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module.
Subjects:
Epistemics.
Modality (Linguistics)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Languages.
Epistemics
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Epistemic modals and epistemic modality / Brian Weatherspoon and Andy Egan
  • Perspectives on possibilities: contextualism, relativism, or what? / Kent Bach
  • The nature of epsitemic space / David J. Chalmers
  • "Might" made right / Kai von Fintel and Anthony S. Gillies
  • Possibilities for representation and credence: two space-ism versus one space-ism / Frank Jackson
  • Epistemic modals are assessment-sensitive / John MacFarlane
  • Perspective in taste predicates and epistemic modals / Johnathan Schaffer
  • Conditional propositions and conditional assertions / Robert Stalnaker
  • How not to theorize about the language of subjective uncertainty / Eric Swanson
  • A problem about permission and possibility / Stephen Yablo
  • Nonfactualism about epistemic modality / Seth Yalcin.

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