{"id":10719,"date":"2017-12-11T06:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T10:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10719"},"modified":"2017-12-06T15:00:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T19:00:54","slug":"lingphil-reading-group-1211-matt-mandelkern-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/12\/11\/lingphil-reading-group-1211-matt-mandelkern-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"LingPhil Reading Group 12\/11 - Matt Mandelkern (Oxford)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/users.ox.ac.uk\/~sfop0776\/\">Matt Mandelkern<\/a> (Oxford)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong> Constructing the conditional<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Monday, December 11, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D769<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I argue, contra the dominant line in the linguistics literature, that conditionals validate Conditional Excluded Middle in full generality, and invalidate Duality:<\/p>\n<p>Conditional Excluded Middle: \u0091If p, q, or if p, not q\u0092 is always true<\/p>\n<p>Duality: \u0091If p, q iff Not: if p, might not q&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I argue that we can, however, give a semantics for conditionals which makes these predictions, without abandoning the insights of Kratzer\u0092s restrictor analysis.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Matt Mandelkern (Oxford) Title: Constructing the conditional Date and time: Monday, December 11, 1-2pm Location: 32-D769 Abstract: I argue, contra the dominant line in the linguistics literature, that conditionals validate Conditional Excluded Middle in full generality, and invalidate Duality: Conditional Excluded Middle: \u0091If p, q, or if p, not q\u0092 is always true Duality: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10720,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719\/revisions\/10720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}