{"id":5062,"date":"2013-04-01T05:01:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T09:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2013-04-01T18:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:00:40","slug":"lfrg-45-paolo-santorio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2013\/04\/01\/lfrg-45-paolo-santorio\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 4\/5 - Paolo Santorio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us at LFRG this week for a talk by a recent MIT PhD in philosophy:<\/p>\n<p>Title: Exhaustified Counterfactuals<br clear='none'\/>\nSpeaker: Paolo Santorio (University of Leeds)<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/time: Fri April 5, 11:30am<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32D-461<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Standard accounts of counterfactuals make use of a notion of closeness or similarity between worlds, whether in the semantics proper, or in the mechanisms of context change associated to utterances of counterfactuals. I present evidence that this is a mistake. The phenomena that Stalnaker and Lewis took to be hallmarks of closeness&#8212;-in essence, apparent failures of monotonocity&#8212;-are better explained by systematic exhaustification of scalar items in the antecedents. This suggests that counterfactuals are monotonic in the antecedent position, both on a static and a dynamic understanding of logical consequence. I (somewhat tentatively) explore how a monotonic account of this kind can deal with a number of standard issues in the literature, including reverse Sobel sequences and failures of transitivity in the logic of counterfactuals.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us at LFRG this week for a talk by a recent MIT PhD in philosophy: Title: Exhaustified Counterfactuals Speaker: Paolo Santorio (University of Leeds) Date\/time: Fri April 5, 11:30am Location: 32D-461 Standard accounts of counterfactuals make use of a notion of closeness or similarity between worlds, whether in the semantics proper, or in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5069,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions\/5069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}