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MCMP – EpistemologyDisagreement and Epistemic ModalityElke Brendel (Bonn) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (17 June, 2015) titled "Disagreement and Epistemic Modality". Abstract: Intuitively, the truth conditions of sentences with epistemic modals, such as “It might be that p”, depend on what is epistemically known by a speaker or some contextually relevant group. That is why a contextualist account of epistemic modals seems to provide an adequate semantics for epistemic modal claims. However, contextualism has difficulties to account for the intuition of disagreement about epistemic modal claims: If A claims (according to his knowledge): “It might be that p” and B claims (according to her knowledge) “It cannot...2015-07-0800 min