Amsterdam Colloquium
- 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