Miners and modals
Author(s) -
David Boylan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.60.2018.465
Subject(s) - deontic logic , modal verb , epistemology , philosophy , linguistics , possible world , verb
I generalise Kolodny and MacFarlane’s miners puzzle by showing epistemic analoguesof their case exist. After motivating various conservative approaches to the originalproblem, I show how they fail to solve the problem in its epistemic guise. I argue that a probabilisticapproach to information-sensitivity gives a general solution to the problem.Keywords: deontic modals, miners puzzle, epistemic ‘should’, probability.
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