{"id":11639,"date":"2018-11-05T06:06:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T10:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11639"},"modified":"2018-11-04T20:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:30:02","slug":"lf-reading-group-117-kai-von-fintel-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/11\/05\/lf-reading-group-117-kai-von-fintel-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 11\/7 - Kai von Fintel (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Kai von Fintel (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong> Conditional desires<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Wednesday, November 7th, 1-2 pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sentences with an *if*-clause and a desire predicate have a &#8220;restricted&#8221; reading that claims that among the worlds described by the *if*-clause, the attitude holder prefers certain worlds. Deriving this reading compositionally reveals hidden properties of conditionals and attitude predicates. There are intriguing connections to puzzles in the analysis of deontic conditionals (*if p, ought q*) and conditional imperatives (*if p, do q!*).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Kai von Fintel (MIT) Title: Conditional desires Date and time: Wednesday, November 7th, 1-2 pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sentences with an *if*-clause and a desire predicate have a &#8220;restricted&#8221; reading that claims that among the worlds described by the *if*-clause, the attitude holder prefers certain worlds. Deriving this reading compositionally reveals hidden properties of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11640,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639\/revisions\/11640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}