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Amsterdam Colloquium

  • Writer: Malte Willer
    Malte Willer
  • Dec 12, 2015
  • 1 min read

This year's Amsterdam Colloquium will see me present my paper "Simplifying Counterfactuals." Here is the abstract:

The fact that counterfactuals in general license simplification of disjunctive antecedents is a familiar problem for the traditional Lewis-Stalnaker variably strict analysis of counterfactuals. This paper argues that recent semantic attempts to solve this problem in a variably strict setting do not address related simplification patterns and demonstrates that the data are well explained by a dynamic strict analysis of counterfactuals using ideas from the inquisitive semantic tradition

 
 

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