{"id":11719,"date":"2018-12-03T06:12:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T10:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11719"},"modified":"2018-12-03T00:57:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T04:57:01","slug":"lingphil-reading-group-1207-friday-1pm-ninan-on-ninan-2012-from-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/12\/03\/lingphil-reading-group-1207-friday-1pm-ninan-on-ninan-2012-from-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"LingPhil Reading Group 12\/07 (Friday 1pm) \u0096 Ninan on Ninan (2012) (from last week)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\"><b>Dilip Ninan<\/b> (Tufts University)&#8217;s talk about his 2012 paper\u00a0<i>Counterfactual attitudes and multi-centered worlds<\/i> has been reported to this week.<\/div>\n<div>Please join us on <strong>Friday 7th at 1pm<\/strong> in the 8th floor seminar room.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong>*Exceptionally, it is preferrable to have read the paper beforehand.*<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Title : <\/strong>Counterfactual attitudes and multi-centered worlds<strong><br clear='none'\/>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author(s) :\u00a0<\/strong>Dilip Ninan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Counterfactual attitudes like imagining, dreaming, and wishing create a problem for the standard formal semantic theory of de re attitude ascriptions. I show how the problem can be avoided if we represent an agent\u0092s attitudinal possibilities using multi-centered worlds, possible worlds with multiple distinguished individuals, each of which represents an individual with whom the agent is acquainted. I then present a compositional semantics for de re ascriptions according to which singular terms are assignment-sensitive expressions and attitude verbs are assignment shifters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilip Ninan (Tufts University)&#8217;s talk about his 2012 paper\u00a0Counterfactual attitudes and multi-centered worlds has been reported to this week. Please join us on Friday 7th at 1pm in the 8th floor seminar room. \u00a0 *Exceptionally, it is preferrable to have read the paper beforehand.* \u00a0 Title : Counterfactual attitudes and multi-centered worlds Author(s) :\u00a0Dilip Ninan [&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-11719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719","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=11719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11720,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719\/revisions\/11720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}