Epistemic modality

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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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Full title :Epistemic modality / edited by Andy Egan and Brian Weatherson.

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Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

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Description:1 online resource (vi, 335 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:0191729027, 9780191729027, 9780191618635, 0191618632
oclc:ocn757856722
LC Classification:P299.M6
Dewey Decimal:415

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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Epistemics Épistémique LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar … LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist… languages Modalité (Linguistique) Modality (Linguistics)