Fall 2011: Seminar in Philosophy of Language

Epistemic Modality and Natural Language (graduate)
Schedule, Syllabus, Requirements, Bibliography (.pdf)

Schedule

Lecture 1	Modals in Natural Language and Modal Logic	Handout (.pdf)
Lecture 2	The Canonic Analysis of Natural Language Modality I Kratzer (1977: 1-15), Kratzer (1991b) Optional: Kratzer (1981, 1991a)	Handout (.pdf)
Lecture 3	The Canonic Analysis of Natural Language Modality II Kratzer (1977: 1-15), Kratzer (1991b) Optional: Kratzer (1981, 1991a)	Handout (.pdf)
Lecture 4	Classic Contextualism about Epistemic Modals DeRose (1991) Optional: Hacking (1967)	Handout (.pdf)
Lecture 5	Relativism for Epistemic Modals I Egan et al. (2005) Optional: Egan (2007)	Handout (.pdf)
Lecture 6	Relativism for Epistemic Modals II MacFarlane (2011) Optional: Weatherson (2008)	Handout (.pdf)
Lecture 7	Relativism vs. Contextualism I von Fintel & Gillies (2008)	Handout (.pdf)
Lecture 8	Relativism vs. Contextualism II Ninan (2011) Optional: Lewis (1980)	Handout (.pdf)
Lecture 9	New Contextualism von Fintel & Gillies (2011)	Handout (.pdf)
Lecture 10	Epistemic Modality and Truth Conditions I Swanson (2011)	Handout (.pdf)
Lecture 11	Epistemic Modality and Truth Conditions II Yalcin (2007) Optional: Yalcin (2011)	Handout (.pdf)
Lecture 12	Dynamic Epistemic Modality Willer (2011) Optional: Veltman (1996), von Fintel & Gillies (2007)
Lecture 13	Probability Modals Yalcin (2010)	Handout (.pdf)
Lecture 14	Epistemic Modals and Belief Revision Gillies (2006)
Lecture 15	Semantics of Modals and Formal Epistemology Moss (2011)