{"id":548,"date":"2017-10-24T18:28:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T17:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-22\/"},"modified":"2017-10-24T18:28:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T17:28:30","slug":"seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juhani Yli-Vakkuri<\/p>\n<p>Bielefeld University<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>Modals and Conditionals are Ambiguous<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><strong>27 October 2017, 16:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o <\/strong>(Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> Following Angelika Kratzer&#8217;s classic work on modals and conditionals, the consensus in natural language semantics is that modals and conditionals (which are often thought to be a kind of modal) are indexical \u2013 in the sense that their contents depend on context \u2013 but not ambiguous. I argue that the consensus is mistaken: modals and conditionals are both indexical and ambiguous. That the difference between objective (or circumstantial) and epistemic interpretations of these expressions is not a matter of indexicality can be seen by studying the ways in which they interact with other indexicals. I reconstruct the view that modals and conditionals are only indexical using standard two-dimensional semantics for indexicals, and I show that it cannot handle the modal\/indexical interaction. I then give an alternative (three-dimensional) semantics that treats modals and indexicals on their objective and epistemic readings as pairs of (indexical) homonyms, and I show that it can handle the interaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juhani Yli-Vakkuri Bielefeld University Modals and Conditionals are Ambiguous 27 October 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Following Angelika Kratzer&#8217;s classic work on modals and conditionals, the consensus in natural language semantics is that modals and conditionals (which are often thought to be a kind of modal) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}