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Agential Free Choice, Melissa Fusco (Columbia)
@ CUNY Grad Center, 6494
Agential Free Choice, Melissa Fusco (Columbia)
@ CUNY Grad Center, 6494
Nov 5 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
The Free Choice effect—whereby ♢(p or q) seems to entail both ♢p and ♢q—has long been described as a phenomenon affecting the deontic modal “may”. This paper presents an extension of the semantic account of deontic free choice defended in Fusco (2015) to the agentive modal “can”, the “can” which, intuitively, describes an agent’s powers. I begin by sketching a model of inexact ability, which grounds a modal approach to agency (Belnap & Perloff, 1998;[...]
6:30 pm
Philosophy of Language Workshop
@ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302
Philosophy of Language Workshop
@ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302
Nov 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
10 Sept Michael Rieppel (Syracuse) 17 Sept Ethan Jerzak (Berkeley) 24 Sept Jeff King (Rutgers) 1 Oct Philippe Schlenker (NYU/ENS/Jean Nicod) 8 Oct No Talk (NYU Fall Recess) 15 Oct Morgan Moyer (Rutgers) 22 Oct Luvell Anderson (Syracuse) 29 Oct Matthew Stone (Rutgers) 5 Nov Justin Bledin (Johns Hopkins) 12 Nov Samia Hesni (MIT) 19 Nov Megan Hyska (Northwestern) 26 Nov Derek Anderson (BU) 3 Dec Cat Saint-Croix (Minnesota) 10 December Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers)
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