Around 2011 I began to develop a view about epistemic modals which I have always wanted to return to. Motivated by dissatisfaction with the rival approaches of contextualism and relativism… Read More

Modals are a special group of helping verbs: can and could, will and would, shall and should, may and might, and must. They are a tricky lot, bringing a range of nuances to sentences.Perhaps… Read More

The tide is beginning to turn against counterintuitive theories of indicative conditionals which either deny them truth-values or give them apparently wrong ones, but a deductive argument i… Read More

Some notes from my post-PhD attempts to get back to the really deep problems surrounding modality.The truth-conditions framing of the puzzle of modality makes it vividly felt. In the case of… Read More

This is a follow-up to What Was My Problem?.1. The Basis of Puzzlement about ModalityOne line of investigation I would like to pursue now is into what might be called the basis of the puzzle… Read More