Faculty

Professor Emeritus

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Robert Stalnaker has written about the philosophy of language – particularly the foundations of pragmatics, metaphysics – issues concerning modality and conditionals, and epistemology – particularly the logic of knowledge, and contextualism about knowledge.  His most recent books are Mere Possibilities (Princeton U. Press, 2012) and Context (OUP, 2016), and he has a collection of papers coming out in 2019 (Knowledge and Conditionals, OUP)