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    Robert Stalnaker — Carmelics
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    Robert Stalnaker

    Robert Stalnaker

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    b. 1940

    Robert Stalnaker is an American philosopher known for his influential work in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and epistemology. He developed the influential possible worlds account of conditionals and made foundational contributions to the theory of presupposition, context, and common knowledge.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Developed the Stalnaker semantics for conditional logic

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    Formulated an influential theory of presupposition and context in philosophy of language

    3

    Advanced the possible worlds framework for propositional attitudes and belief revision

    4

    Made significant contributions to game theory and epistemic logic, particularly on common knowledge

    5

    Authored 'Inquiry' and 'Context and Content', major works in epistemology and philosophy of language

    Positions & Arguments(4)

    Philosophy of Language

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    The accessibility relation between DRSs is not stipulated but is entailed by the semantics of the DRS language

    Modality & Possibility

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    The accessibility relation between DRSs is not stipulated but is entailed by the semantics of the DRS language

    Skepticism

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    The difference in conclusions between Aumann (1995) and Stalnaker (1998) is due to differing models of belief revision upon deviation from the backward induction path

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    Plausibility updates in sequential games during actual play differ in interpretation from plausibility updates used in pregame deliberation for Backward Induction.

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    There is a fundamental tension between treating logical knowledge as a priori and the computational intractability of deciding logical validity.

    Truth & Knowledge

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    The difference in conclusions between Aumann (1995) and Stalnaker (1998) is due to differing models of belief revision upon deviation from the backward induction path

    claim

    Plausibility updates in sequential games during actual play differ in interpretation from plausibility updates used in pregame deliberation for Backward Induction.

    claim

    There is a fundamental tension between treating logical knowledge as a priori and the computational intractability of deciding logical validity.

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    Truth & Knowledge3
    Skepticism3
    Modality & Possibility1
    Philosophy of Language1

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