For you philosophy geeks out there: I see via Weatherson's Papers Blog that a member of our department's faculty is the co-author of a forthcoming essay in the journal Mind. Here is the abstract of the paper from our professor's website:
The language of quantified modal logic needs an "actuality" operator to represent many modal claims of natural language. But David Lewis's counterpart theory can be neither extended nor revised to accommodate such an operator. Accordingly counterpart theory should be rejected as a way of understanding modality.Because I know nothing about modal logic, I can ask (in order to make you laugh): Why not just introduce a new operator? Call it "heart". It can be shaped like a heart. I know it'll work too; I've been dotting the I's in my girlfriend's name with one for years now! Posted by Paul at November 23, 2004 06:57 PM
