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.
How Stalnaker turns an assertion into a public update: not merely saying what is true, but narrowing the context set under three pragmatic constraints.
Episode 1 of a systematic tour of Robert Stalnaker: a lecture on his 1976 paper Possible Worlds, the distinction between ways things might have been and concrete rival universes, and why possible-world semantics makes propositions deliberately coarse-grained.
An advanced seminar opener on Stalnaker's 1976 moderate realism about possible worlds: ways things might have been, not rival concrete universes, and why that forces a coarse-grained theory of propositions.
