The counterpart theorist has a problem: there is no obvious way to understand talk about actuality in terms of counterparts. Fara and Williamson have charged that this obstacle cannot be overcome. Here I defend the counterpart theorist by offering systematic interpretations of a quantified modal language that includes an actuality operator. Centrally, I disentangle the counterpart relation from...

The theorists in this volume have confronted the exercise presented to them in vastly different ways. As editors, we asked them “to consider how you would evaluate this program” and “to make and specify assumptions about the program context.” The primary task, however, was to describe “a course of action, which may have consequences that lead to other evaluation design decisions.” All of the th...