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Author: Dowell

Some thoughts on constructing and justifying semantic and metasemantic theories

Dowell / On Posted onOctober 10, 2014August 5, 2016 / (0) Comments

Hi, everyone.  Meena Krishnamurthy has very generously allowed me to post a few prelimary thoughts on the above topic and I thought I’d shard the link here to maximize the likelihood that I have a chance to benefit from your comments.    » …Read more

A Contextualist Solution to a Puzzle about “Ought”s and “If”s

Dowell / On Posted onJuly 2, 2010 / (70) Comments

Consider the following scenario:

MINERS: 10 miners are trapped in a flooding mine; they are either all in shaft A or all in shaft B.   » …Read more

Flexible Contextualism about ‘Ought’s

Dowell / On Posted onJune 9, 2009 / (28) Comments

Thanks to everyone for sharing their intuitions about the cases in my previous post. Here I’m going to back up and say something about my interest in the cases.  » …Read more

Intuitions about Bare Normative Modal Statements

Dowell / On Posted onMay 31, 2009 / (28) Comments

Right now I’m thinking about the proper descriptive semantics for bare, normative modal statements, statements that use expressions like “must”, “ought”, and “may” normatively but don’t contain explicit restrictor phrases like “legally”,  » …Read more

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