{"id":17820,"date":"2026-03-02T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17820"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:55:56","slug":"linglunch-dean-mchugh-university-of-edinburgh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/03\/02\/linglunch-dean-mchugh-university-of-edinburgh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 3\/5 - Dean McHugh (University of Edinburgh)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Dean McHugh (University of Edinburgh)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Conditional Modality with Alternatives<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, March 5, 12:30pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>This talk brings together two ideas. First, that statements under a modal are interpreted as conditional antecedents. &#8216;Possibly A&#8217; states that if A were true, there would be some case where the relevant ideals are met. Dually, &#8216;necessarily A&#8217; states that if A were false, there would be no case where the relevant ideals are met. Second, conditional antecedents are interpreted via sets of alternatives, with some items\u0097such as disjunction and \u0091any&#8217;\u0097introducing multiple alternatives. Combining them returns, in a uniform and automatic way, a solution to three challenges facing the standard theory of modality: free choice inferences, independence inferences, and counterexamples to substitution of logical equivalents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Dean McHugh (University of Edinburgh) Title: Conditional Modality with Alternatives Time: Thursday, March 5, 12:30pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: This talk brings together two ideas. First, that statements under a modal are interpreted as conditional antecedents. &#8216;Possibly A&#8217; states that if A were true, there would be some case where the relevant ideals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17823,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions\/17823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}