Among politicians and policy-makers it is almost universally assumed that more
transparency in government is better. Until now, philosophers have almost completely …

Abstract Stalnaker (Context, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014) defends two ideas about
common ground. The first is that the common ground of a conversation is definable in terms …

Joint attention is an everyday phenomenon in which two or more individuals attend to an
object, event process or property in the presence of each other, such that their attention to …

We develop a dynamic account of what if questions on which they re-pose questions inside
local contexts introduced by their if-clauses subject to the felicity constraint that the resulting …

Communication can be risky. Like other kinds of actions, it comes with potential costs. For
instance, an utterance can be embarrassing, offensive, or downright illegal. In the face of …

According to a popular family of theories, assertions and other communicative acts should
be understood as attempts to change the context of a conversation. Contexts, on this view …

Hyperintensionality and Normativity Page 1 Federico LGFaroldi Hyperintensionality and
Normativity Page 2 Hyperintensionality and Normativity Page 3 Federico LG Faroldi …

This paper centers on discourses where instead of accepting or rejecting an assertion, a
hearer uses an epistemic possibility claim to bring a new subject matter to the original …

The coordinated attack scenario and the electronic mail game are two paradoxes of
common knowledge. In simple mathematical models of these scenarios, the agents …

This paper argues for several related theses. First, the epistemological position that
knowledge requires safe belief can be motivated by views in the philosophy of science …