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Dynamics of Epistemic Modality

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Malte Willer
The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (1): 45–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1728714
Published: 01 January 2013
...Malte Willer A dynamic semantics for epistemically modalized sentences is an attractive alternative to the orthodox view that our best theory of meaning ascribes to such sentences truth-conditions relative to what is known. This essay demonstrates that a dynamic theory about might and must offers...
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General Dynamic Triviality Theorems

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Jeffrey Sanford Russell, John Hawthorne
The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 307–339.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-3516936
Published: 01 July 2016
... of the project of dynamic semantics. © 2016 by Cornell University 2016 probability conditionals epistemic modals subjective value dynamic semantics commutativity idempotence These principles have a ring of plausibility: The probability you assign the conditional “if A then B ” ought...
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Quantification and Epistemic Modality

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Dilip Ninan
The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 433–485.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-6973010
Published: 01 October 2018
... University 2018 quantifiers epistemic modals dynamic semantics counterpart theory conceptual covers Imagine that there is a lottery with only two tickets, a blue ticket and a red ticket. The tickets are also numbered 1 through 2, but we don't know which color goes with which number...
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Situations and Individuals

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Zsófia Zvolenszky
The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (2): 314–316.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2007-046
Published: 01 April 2008
.... referential ‘he’: John was here but he left. bound ‘he’: Every boy thinks he’s a rock star. donkey ‘it’: Every farmer who owns a donkey beats it. The D-type theory goes against dynamic semantics—the received view originally developed by Heim and Kamp. The donkey pronoun ‘it’ is tricky...
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Bounded Modality

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Matthew Mandelkern
The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 1–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-7213001
Published: 01 January 2019
... of this.’ Moreover, much of our data involved structurally simpler sentences, where a similar response is obviously not plausible. 56. The semantics for negation remains unchanged from above. Compare Klinedinst and Rothschild 2012 , which couples the domain semantics with dynamic, but asymmetric, connectives...
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New Work on Speech Acts

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Samia Hesni
The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 319–322.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-8809984
Published: 01 April 2021
... approach from both dynamic pragmatics and dynamic semantics, as he uses observations about intonation to account for differentially forced imperatives. One interesting feature of the work on imperatives in this volume is that much of the methodological debates on theories of imperatives seems to reduce...
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Epistemic Modality

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Malte Willer
The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 641–647.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2315324
Published: 01 October 2013
..., that epistemic modal claims express propositions of some kind. Stephen Yablo offers a dynamic semantics for epistemic modals that gives the semantics of (1) in terms of its update effects on the common ground between discourse participants. The classical dynamic approach to might by Veltman (1985 , 1996...
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Epistemology Formalized

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Sarah Moss
The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (1): 1–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1728705
Published: 01 January 2013
... . The Logic of Conditionals . Dordrecht : D. Reidel . Alston W. 1988 . “ An Internalist Externalism .” Synthese 74 ( 3 ): 265 – 83 . Beaver David I. 2001 . Presupposition and Assertion in Dynamic Semantics . Stanford : CSLI Publications . Belzoni Giovanni . 1820...
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On Truth-Conditions for If (but Not Quite Only If )

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Anthony S. Gillies
The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 325–349.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2009-002
Published: 01 July 2009
... it at that. That would be to opt, in the lingo 343 ANTHONY S. GILLIES of dynamic semantics, for a test-to-test characterization of entailment.14 Better, I think, to treat entailment not as preservation of truth but as preservation of information. That way we...
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Representing Knowledge

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Peter van Elswyk
The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 97–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-8699695
Published: 01 January 2021
... Things with Words. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press . Bach, Kent, and Robert M. Harnish. 1979. Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press . Beaver, David. 2001. Presupposition and Assertion in Dynamic Semantics. Stanford, CA: CSLI . Benton, Matthew A. 2011. “Two...
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Context

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Una Stojnić
The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 408–413.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-6718834
Published: 01 July 2018
... to conversation, or navigating the dynamics of context, even if we allow reasoning to intervene at all stages of interpretation. So, how strongly should we understand the “autonomy of pragmatics,” and how to understand semantic/pragmatic interface within this framework? The weaker understanding—that we can...
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Lying and Misleading in Discourse

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Andreas Stokke
The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 83–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-3321731
Published: 01 January 2016
...! Lying without the Intent to Deceive .” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 88 : 251 – 64 . Spector Benjamin 2007 . “ Scalar Implicatures: Exhaustivity and Gricean Reasoning .” In Questions in Dynamic Semantics , ed. Aloni M. Butler A. Dekker P. , 225 – 50 . Oxford...
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Suppose and Tell: The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals

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John Mackay
The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 123–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-9415156
Published: 01 January 2022
...John Mackay [email protected] Williamson Timothy , Suppose and Tell: The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 viii + 278 pp. © 2022 by Cornell University 2022 The material interpretation of the conditional is motivated...
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Logic and Reality: Essays on the Legacy of Arthur Prior

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Christopher Menzel
The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 281–286.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-109-2-281
Published: 01 April 2000
.... Dordrecht: D. Reidel. Pearl, J. 1989. “Probabilistic Semantics for Nonmonotonic Reasoning: A Survey.” In Proceedings of the First International Confeence on Principh of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR), 1989, ed. R. J. Brachman, H. J. Levesque, and R. Reiter, 505-16. Reprinted...
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Names Are Variables

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Anders J. Schoubye
The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 53–94.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-7890468
Published: 01 January 2020
... 2011 ), File Change Semantics ( Heim 1988 ), or Dynamic Predicate Logic ( Groenendijk and Stokhof 1991 ), is needed regardless. And once dynamic binding theory is adopted, capturing donkey-type cases involving names is not a problem. However, it is important to emphasize that even if a dynamic...
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Full Belief and Loose Speech

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Sarah Moss
The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 255–291.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-7537270
Published: 01 July 2019
... to the notion of local context used in many dynamic semantic theories. For discussion of these notions of context and the relationship between them, see section 4.2 of Stalnaker 2014 . 28. For further development of this argument, see the “functionalist idea” defended in Weatherson 2005: 421...
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Bare Quantifiers

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Zoltán Gendler Szabó
The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (2): 247–283.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2010-029
Published: 01 April 2011
... employ in logic, mathematics, and the sciences can be fully captured in English, there is also reason to think that the threat can be averted. © 2011 by Cornell University 2011 Earlier versions of the article were presented at a Rutgers Semantics Workshop, at Arché in St. Andrews...
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Two-Dimensional Semantics

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Peter Sutton
The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 637–639.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-026
Published: 01 October 2008
... be used to settle questions of anaphoric pronouns, indexical pronouns, and dynamic semantics. Such work might not be of great interest to some philosophers of mind, but for linguis- tically inclined philosophers, it is not to be ignored. If you’re...
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Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy

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Gábor Betegh
The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 607–610.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-017
Published: 01 October 2008
... be used to settle questions of anaphoric pronouns, indexical pronouns, and dynamic semantics. Such work might not be of great interest to some philosophers of mind, but for linguis- tically inclined philosophers, it is not to be ignored. If you’re...
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Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias

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Catherine Osborne
The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 610–614.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-018
Published: 01 October 2008
... be used to settle questions of anaphoric pronouns, indexical pronouns, and dynamic semantics. Such work might not be of great interest to some philosophers of mind, but for linguis- tically inclined philosophers, it is not to be ignored. If you’re...
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