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    Epistemic Modals and Common Ground
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 56 (2-3): 179-209. 2013.
    This paper considers some questions related to the determination of epistemic modal domains. Specifically, given situations in which groups of agents have epistemic states that bear on a modal domain, how is the domain best restricted? This is a metasemantic project, in which I combine a standard semantics for epistemic modals, as developed by Kratzer, with a standard story about conversational dynamics, as developed by Stalnaker. I show how a standard framework for epistemic logic can model the…Read more