Epistemic Modality

22-23 June, 2006
Coombs Extension Lecture Theatre 1.13
Australian National University

Epistemic possibility and necessity have received less philosophical attention than logical, metaphysical, and nomological possibility and necessity. But in recent years this has begun to change. Philosophers have focused on issues such as (i) what is it for a proposition to be epistemically possible, (ii) what are the semantic properties of epistemic modals such as "might", (iii) what is the relationship between epistemic and metaphysical possibility, and (iv) can one give an analysis of epistemic modality that parallels the familiar world-involving analysis of metaphysical modality. This workshop focussed on all of these topics.

THURSDAY, JUNE 22
10am	Reception (coffee and tea available)
10.15am	Frank Jackson (ANU) "On Distributing Credence over Named Entities"
12noon	Break for lunch
1.30pm	Andy Egan (ANU/Michigan) "Epistemic Modals are Weird"
3.15pm	Afternoon tea
3.45pm	Matt Weiner (Texas Tech) "The Uses of Relativism"
5.30pm	Drinks

FRIDAY, JUNE 23
10am	Coffee and tea available
10.15am	Seth Yalcin (MIT) "A Paradox of Epistemic Modality"
12noon	Break for lunch
1.30pm	Jonathan Schaffer (Massachussets) "Context Sensitivities, Epistemic Modals, and the KGB"
3.15pm	Afternoon tea
3.45pm	David Chalmers (ANU) "Epistemic Space and Epistemic Rigidity"
5.30pm	Drinks
7.30pm	Conference dinner

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