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Contextualism & Relativism Workshop II: Epistemic Modals

 

Workshop


  Time: 21 November, 2008 - 22 November, 2008
  Location: St Andrews
 
 

The second Contextualism & Relativism Workshop will be held in St Andrews 21--22 November 2008. The topic of the workshop will be epistemic modals.

All talks will take place in the Upper College Hall in St Salvator’s Quad.

Friday, 21 November 2008

16.00-16.30 Tea, Coffee and Home Baking
16.30-18.30 Josh Dever (Texas):
Must or Might
(Chaired by Dirk Kindermann)
19.00 Speaker's Dinner at The Balaka

Saturday, 22 November 2008

9.00-11.00 Janice Dowell (Nebraska-Lincoln):
A Defense of Canonical Contextualism About Epistemic Modals
(Chaired by Anders Schoubye)
11.00-11.30 Tea, Coffee
11.30-13.30 Thony Gillies (Michigan):
Must...Stay...Strong!
(Chaired by Rachel Sterken)
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.30 Seth Yalcin (NYU):
Probability Operators
(Chaired by Dylan Dodd)
16.30-17.00 Tea, Coffee
17.00-18.30 Roundtable Discussion: Josh Dever, Janice Dowell, Thony Gillies and Seth Yalcin.
20.30 Workshop dinner at The Russell Hotel