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Stalnaker Introduced

Stalnaker Introduced

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A solo lecture-style podcast that walks through Robert Stalnaker’s major philosophical contributions one idea at a time, from possible worlds and assertion to common ground, conditionals, and inquiry.

Stalnaker Introduced
Stalnaker Introduced
2026-08-25

This episode turns from possible worlds to the speech act that changes which of them remain live in a conversation: assertion. Robert Stalnaker’s 1978 essay “Assertion” treats a conversational context…

Assertion and the Set of Live Possibilities
Stalnaker Introduced
Stalnaker Introduced
2026-08-19

This opening episode asks what a possible world is supposed to be. Robert Stalnaker’s answer is realist enough to support modal semantics, but modest enough not to populate reality with Lewis-style co…

Possible Worlds Without Extra Universes
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Stalnaker Introduced
Stalnaker Introduced
2026-08-19

An advanced-seminar opener on Robert Stalnaker's 1976 paper Possible Worlds: what moderate realism about possible worlds is, how it parts company with David Lewis, and why taking "ways things might ha…

Ways things might have been
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Assertion and the Set of Live Possibilities

This episode turns from possible worlds to the speech act that changes which of them remain live in a conversation: assertion. Robert Stalnaker’s 1978 essay “Assertion” treats a conversational context…

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