Modality in flux

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dc.contributor.advisorDever, Joshen
dc.contributor.advisorAsher, Nicholasen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBeaver, David I.en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKamp, Hansen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSainsbury, Richard M.en
dc.creatorWiller, Malteen
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-05T21:38:42Zen
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-05T21:38:48Zen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-11T22:20:19Z
dc.date.available2010-10-05T21:38:42Zen
dc.date.available2010-10-05T21:38:48Zen
dc.date.available2017-05-11T22:20:19Z
dc.date.issued2010-05en
dc.date.submittedMay 2010en
dc.date.updated2010-10-05T21:38:48Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractI develop a novel semantic theory for modals that has important consequences for contemporary work in epistemology, metaphysics and ethics. My theory replaces the dominant view about semantics--that our best theory of meaning should ascribe truth-conditions to modalized sentences--with a non-truth-conditional yet fully compositional semantics for modals. Its contributions to current debates in analytic philosophy include an explanation of the possibility of modal disagreement that avoids relativism, a solution to the paradoxes about conditional obligations (including the gentle murder paradox), and new impulses for a generalized solution to the Frege-Geach problem for noncognitivism.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1097en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.subjectDynamic semanticsen
dc.subjectConditionalsen
dc.subjectDeontic modalsen
dc.subjectEpistemic modalsen
dc.subjectFrege-Geach problemen
dc.subjectNoncognitivismen
dc.titleModality in fluxen
dc.type.genrethesisen

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