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ALVARADO MARAMBIO, José Tomás. Epistemic Two-Dimensionalism and Ontological Modal Space. Crítica (Méx., D.F.) [online]. 2007, vol.39, n.117, pp.3-18. ISSN 0011-1503.

This work presents the main lines of epistemic two-dimensionalism recently defended by David Chalmers, discussing, in particular, the motivations that semantics is supposed to serve in the connection between metaphysical modality and epistemic modality. After presenting the two-dimensional epistemic semantics, three difficulties are leveled against it: (i) it is insufficiently distinguished from the traditional contextual bi-dimensional semantics; (ii) the notion of a priori justification on which it is constructed is badly requiring more precision; and (iii) the defenders of the semantics have completely despised the cases of "strong contingencies".

Palavras-chave : two-dimensionalism; modality; a priori; semantics.