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.
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…
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…
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…
