http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
1 online resource (vi, 335 pages) : illustrations
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.
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.
edited by Andy Egan and Brian Weatherson.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011