Resolving a puzzle about the fixity of the past

TY - JOUR

T1 - Resolving a puzzle about the fixity of the past

AU - Geddes, Alexander

PY - 2023/4/25

Y1 - 2023/4/25

N2 - Lampert (2022) argues that standard views concerning knowledge and the semantics of ‘actually’ conflict with a widely held principle concerning the fixity of the past. I show that his attempt to establish the conflict fails, as it rests on the implicit assumption that a past mental state or utterance involving a modal indexical must have the same content across worlds with a shared past, when in fact it must, given its character, differ in content.

AB - Lampert (2022) argues that standard views concerning knowledge and the semantics of ‘actually’ conflict with a widely held principle concerning the fixity of the past. I show that his attempt to establish the conflict fails, as it rests on the implicit assumption that a past mental state or utterance involving a modal indexical must have the same content across worlds with a shared past, when in fact it must, given its character, differ in content.

U2 - https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anad042

DO - https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anad042

M3 - Article

SN - 0003-2638

JO - ANALYSIS

JF - ANALYSIS

ER -