| Subject |
Epistemics.
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Modality (Linguistics)
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| Alt Name |
Egan, Andy.
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Weatherson, Brian.
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| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 335 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| ISBN |
0191729027 (ebook) |
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9780191729027 (ebook) |
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9780191618635 (electronic bk.) |
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0191618632 (electronic bk.) |
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9780199591596 |
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9780199591589 |
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019959158X |
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0199591598 |
| OCLC # |
757856722 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Epistemic modality. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780199591589 (DLC) 2011500164 (OCoLC)687683175 |
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