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In this seminar, we'll consider recent theoretical and experimental work by philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive scientists on the impact of our modal judgments (i.e., our judgments about whether a state or event is possible or not, statistically probable or not, morally bad or not, and so forth) in various cognitive domains. Among other things, we'll look at recent studies suggesting that our moral judgments can affect our judgments about whether an agent is free to act, our selection of causes, and our simulation of counterfactual possibilities in surprising ways.