Modality, Partiality, and Perspective Professor Wesley Holliday Thursday 2-4 UC Berkeley, Fall 2013 234 Moses

Syllabus1 Description This seminar will address a number of foundational issues concerning “possible worlds- based” approaches to language and thought: total worlds vs. partial situations; partial modal logic; aboutness; indexicals and indices; centered worlds; de se attitudes; and more. Requirements

{ Due the night before each meeting: précis of one of the readings (upload to bSpace). { Due at the end of the term: research paper of 15-20 pages (upload to bSpace). { Each participant presents one of the readings for one or more meetings.

Contact email: [email protected] | web: wesholliday.net | OHs: Th 12-2, 246 Moses Schedule Aug. 29 First Session Rescheduled Sept. 5 Crash Course in Modal Logic Optional background reading: Partee 1989 and Holliday and Perry 2013. Partiality Sept. 12 Worlds and Situations Reading: Barwise 1981 and Holliday 2013. Sept. 19 Worlds and Situations Reading: Perry 1986 and Stalnaker 1986. Sept. 26 Partiality in Modal Logic Reading: Humberstone 1981. Sept. 27∗ Partiality in Modal Logic (Friday 11-1 in 234 Moses) Reading: Humberstone 1981. Oct. 3 Partiality in Semantics Reading: Kratzer 1989, §0-4, §5.1, §5.3, §6.1-2. Recommended reading: Kratzer 2011. Oct. 10 Aboutness Reading: Yablo Forthcoming, Ch. 1, Ch. 5. Recommended reading: Lewis 1988 and Perry 1989.

1The electronic version at philosophy.berkeley.edu/people/page/138 contains hyperlinks to readings and resources.

1/3 Oct. 17 Session Rescheduled Oct. 24 Aboutness Reading: Yablo Forthcoming, Ch. 2-3. Oct. 25∗ Aboutness (Friday 11-1 in 234 Moses) Reading: Yablo Forthcoming, Ch. 3-4. Perspective Oct. 31 Demonstratives Reading: Kaplan 1989. Nov. 7 Demonstratives Reading: Kaplan 1989. Nov. 14 Indexicality and Perspective Reading: Perry 1977, Perry 1979 and Cappelen and Dever Forthcoming, Ch. 1-4. Nov. 21 Indexicality and Perspective Reading: same as previous session. Nov. 28 Thanksgiving - No Session Dec. 5 Indexicality and Perspective (Nov. 28 is a holiday) Primary reading: Lewis 1979 and Cappelen and Dever Forthcoming, Ch. 5. Secondary reading: Stalnaker 2011. Other relevant reading: Lewis 1983 and Ninan Forthcoming. Readings Jon Barwise. Scenes and Other Situations. Journal of Philosophy, 78(7):369–397, 1981.

Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever. The Inessential Indexical. Oxford University Press, Forthcoming.

Wesley H. Holliday. Situational Modal Logic of Perception. 2013. Manuscript.

Wesley H. Holliday and John Perry. Roles, Rigidity, and Quantification in Epistemic Logic. In Alexandru Baltag and Sonja Smets, editors, Johan F. A. K. van Benthem on Logical and Informational Dynamics, Trends in Logic: Outstanding Contributions. Springer, 2013. Forthcoming.

I. L. Humberstone. From Worlds to Possibilities. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 10(3): 313–339, 1981.

David Kaplan. Demonstratives. In Joseph Almog, John Perry, and Howard Wettstein, editors, Themes from Kaplan, pages 481–563. MIT Press, 1989.

Angelika Kratzer. An Investigation of the Lumps of Thought. Linguistics and Philosophy, 12:607–653, 1989.

Angelika Kratzer. Situations in Natural Language Semantics. In Edward N. Zalta, editor, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Fall 2011 edition, 2011.

David Lewis. Attitudes De Dicto and De Se. The Philosophical Review, 88:513–543, 1979.

David Lewis. Individuation by Acquaintance and by Stipulation. Philosophical Review, 92 (1):3–32, 1983.

2/3 David Lewis. Statements Partly About Observation. Philosophical Papers, 17:1–31, 1988.

Dilip Ninan. Self-Location and Other Location. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Forthcoming.

Barbara Partee. Possible Worlds in Model-theoretic Semantics: A Linguistic Perspective. In Sture Allén, editor, Possible Worlds in Humanities, Arts and Sciences: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 65, pages 93–113. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1989.

John Perry. Frege on Demonstratives. Philosophical Review, 86(4):474–497, 1977.

John Perry. The Problem of the Essential Indexical. Noûs, 13(1):3–21, 1979.

John Perry. From Worlds to Situations. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 15:83–107, 1986.

John Perry. Possible Worlds and Subject Matter. In The Problem of the Essential Indexical and Other Essays (2000), pages 145–160. CSLI Publications, 1989.

Robert Stalnaker. Possible Worlds and Situations. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 15: 109–123, 1986.

Robert Stalnaker. The Essential Contextual. In Jessica Brown and Herman Cappelen, editors, Assertion: New Philosophical Essays, pages 137–150. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Stephen Yablo. Aboutness. Princeton University Press, Forthcoming.

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