Last weekend I was at the very successful workshop on conditionals organised by the graduate students at the University of Connecticut. The aim of the workshop was to bring together philosophers and linguists with very different methodologies together. I think the interaction was useful. Kai von Fintel told the philosophers that from a semantic point of view, the problem is that philosophers don’t read enough David Lewis. Or, perhaps more precisely, they don’t read the right David Lewis, especially “Adverbs of Quantification”.

I did a version of “Conditionals and Relativism”:http://brian.weatherson.org/car06.pdf, and got some valuable feedback from it. (Note though that the version I did isn’t a lot like that version. I’ll hopefully write something here soon about the differences.)

There are more comments about the conference by “Kai”:http://semantics-online.org/blog/2006/04/how_ordinary_are_conditionals and at the new “UConn gradblog”:http://www.whatisitliketobeablog.com/?p=9.

Congrats again to the organisers (Franklin Scott and Brian Leahy) for a very successful workshop.