Judge dependence, epistemic modals, and predicates of personal taste

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Deliberative modality under epistemic uncertainty (2013, background): “…(2-a) to be false because the best worlds are divided 22This flexibility has recently been widely discussed in the literature on epistemic modals (DeRose, 1991; Egan et al., 2005; Egan, 2007; von Fintel and Gillies, 2007, 2008; Hacking, 1967; MacFarlane, 2011; Stephenson, 2007, among others).”
Folk Moral Relativism (2011, background): “…similar sorts of effects in other domains that have nothing to do with morality (Egan, Hawthorne and Weatherson, 2005; Lasersohn, 2009; MacFarlane, 2007; Stephenson, 2007), and it seems reasonable to suspect that the effects that arise in these other domains might apply in the moral domain as well.”
The grammar of standards: Judge-dependence, purpose-relativity, and comparison classes in degree constructions (2014, background): “A definition of faultless disagreement common in the linguistic literature is from (Stephenson, 2007a):”
Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study (2012, background): “(10) If any sector of society outside the military might have formed a political opposition, the Iraqi middle class would have been the only hope, a diplomat said.”