Robert Stalnaker is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He got his PhD in philosophy at Princeton University, working with Stuart Hampshire and C. G. Hempel. He taught at Yale University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Cornell University before moving to MIT in 1988. He is the author of Inquiry (MIT Press, 1984), Our Knowledge of the Internal World (OUP, 2007), and Mere Possibilities (Princeton University Press, 2010), as well as two collections of papers, Context and Content (OUP, 1999) and Ways a World Might Be (OUP, 2003). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.

Everyone working through the book will take away important and thought provoking insights about the question how to theorize about language and communication

• Introduction 1: Three Notions of Context 2: Common Ground and Keeping Score 3: Presupposition Requirements 4: Context and Compositionality 5: The Essential Contextual 6: May, Might, If 7: Disagreement and Projection 8: Contextualism and the New Relativism Appendix References

Robert Stalnaker is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He got his PhD in philosophy at Princeton University, working with Stuart Hampshire and C. G. Hempel. He taught at Yale University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Cornell University before moving to MIT in 1988. He is the author of Inquiry (MIT Press, 1984), Our Knowledge of the Internal World (OUP, 2007), and Mere Possibilities (Princeton University Press, 2010), as well as two collections of papers, Context and Content (OUP, 1999) and Ways a World Might Be (OUP, 2003). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.

Everyone working through the book will take away important and thought provoking insights about the question how to theorize about language and communication

• Introduction 1: Three Notions of Context 2: Common Ground and Keeping Score 3: Presupposition Requirements 4: Context and Compositionality 5: The Essential Contextual 6: May, Might, If 7: Disagreement and Projection 8: Contextualism and the New Relativism Appendix References