Epistemic modality /
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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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module. |
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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.