Robert Culp Stalnaker (born 1940) is an American philosopher who is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute...
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philosophers and linguists along with a competing account from Robert Stalnaker; together the Stalnaker–Lewis theory of counterfactuals has become perhaps the...
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Frege's discussion of indexicals, notably John Perry, David Lewis, and Robert Stalnaker, have adopted Lingens to make their own points about indexicals. Lingens...
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from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in January 1995, with Robert Stalnaker as his thesis advisor. After receiving his doctorate, Stanley accepted...
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they are literally existing alternate realities, and others such as Robert Stalnaker arguing that they are not. Possible worlds are one of the foundational...
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Modal realism (section Stalnaker's response)
other theories of the ontology and epistemology of possible worlds. Robert Stalnaker, while he finds some merit in Lewis's account of possible worlds, finds...
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Samuel Stalnaker (1682 or 1715 – 1769) was an explorer, trapper, guide and one of the first settlers on the Virginia frontier. He established a trading...
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makes sense of this possibility. The theory was first developed by Robert Stalnaker, but it has been advocated by numerous philosophers since, including...
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Example 5. The name "Sleeping Beauty" was given to the problem by Robert Stalnaker and was first used in extensive discussion in the Usenet newsgroup...
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distinguished philosopher every four years. They have been delivered by Robert Stalnaker, Jerry Fodor, Hilary Putnam, Sydney Shoemaker, Saul Kripke, and Elizabeth...
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