This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of
insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have largely focussed on a …

Already in the Port-Royal Logic of 1662, Antoine Arnauld & Pierre Nicole pointed out the
basic problem that befalls standard approaches to the semantics of deontic and bouletic …

The best known theory of modality in linguistics (,) uses a binary relation on worlds to state
truth-conditions for sentences with epistemic auxiliaries, and lifts this order to an order on …

Epistemic and deontic comparatives differ in how they interact with disjunction. I argue that
this difference provides a compelling empirical argument against the semantics of K ratzer …

Reasons have become a central topic in philosophy. Epistemologists study reasons for
belief. Moral philosophers assess reasons for action. And numerous metaethicists argue that …