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Author : John Joseph Young
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Counterfactual and Subjunctive Conditionals written by John Joseph Young and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johan Mårtensson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Subjunctive Conditionals and Time written by Johan Mårtensson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Lewis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118696417
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Counterfactuals written by David Lewis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fact conditionals, including his famous defense of realism about possible worlds.
Author : J.L. Pollock
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401015007
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Subjunctive Reasoning written by J.L. Pollock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am indebted to many people for the help they gave me in the writing of this book. lowe a large debt to David Lewis and Robert Stalnaker, on both general and specific grounds. As becomes apparent from reading the notes, the book would not have been possible without their pioneering work on subjunctive conditionals. In addition, both were kind enough to provide specific comments on earlier versions of different parts of the book, and Stalnaker read and commented on the entire manuscript. Closer to home, I am indebted to my colleagues Rolf Eberle and Henry Kyburg, Jf. , my erstwhile colleague Keith Lehrer, and numerous graduate students for their helpful comments on various parts of the manuscript. Some of the material contained herein appeared first in the form of journal articles, and I wish to thank the journals in question for allowing the material to be reprinted here. Chapter One contains material taken from 'The "Possible Worlds" Analysis of Counter-factuals', published in Phil. Studies 29 (1976), 469 (Reidel); Chapter Two contains material much revised from 'Four Kinds of Conditionals', Am. Phil. Quarterly 12 (1975), and Chapter Three contains much revised material from 'Subjunctive Generaliza tions', Synthese 28 (1974), 199 (Reidel). CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1. SUBJUNCTIVE REASONING There exists quite a variety of statements which are in some sense 'subjunctive'.
Author : Otávio Bueno
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317585283
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Modality written by Otávio Bueno and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modality - the question of what is possible and what is necessary - is a fundamental area of philosophy and philosophical research. The Routledge Handbook of Modality is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into seven clear parts: worlds and modality essentialism, ontological dependence, and modality modal anti-realism epistemology of modality modality in science modality in logic and mathematics modality in the history of philosophy. Within these sections the central issues, debates and problems are examined, including possible worlds, essentialism, counterfactuals, ontological dependence, modal fictionalism, deflationism, the integration challenge, conceivability, a priori knowledge, laws of nature, natural kinds, and logical necessity. The Routledge Handbook of Modality is essential reading for students and researchers in epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. It will also be very useful for those in related fields in philosophy such as philosophy of mathematics, logic and philosophy of science.
Author : Tyrus Kares Fisher
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ISBN 13 : 9781085565479
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Counterfactual Dependence and Causation's Arrows written by Tyrus Kares Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation is about the meanings and logics of conditionals. It is comprised of two parts. Part I concerns subjunctive conditionals, backtrackers, and Modus Ponens. Part II explores some ideas to do with the truth conditions of indicative conditionals; in particular, the direct-arguments for the material-conditional analysis and, again, Modus Ponens. Causal-model frameworks are utilized and discussed throughout. A summary of results follows. Backtracking and Counterlegals: A backtracker is a subjunctive conditional such that a time implicated in its antecedent is later than a time implicated in its consequent. A counterlegal is a subjunctive conditional the antecedent of which is inconsistent with some set of laws or invariances. Theories that handle backtrackers well typically handle counterlegals poorly and vice versa. A semantic theory that handles both backtrackers and counterlegals is motivated and presented, demonstrating that despite the difficulties here, a single semantic framework can be used to evaluate both backtracking and counterlegal counterfactuals. Modus Ponens and Conditionals in Natural Language: The apparent counterexamples to Modus Ponens for indicative and subjunctive conditionals (McGee 1985; Briggs 2012) do not have the logical form of Modus Ponens if the standard truth-conditional theory of conditionals in linguistics (Kratzer's [1986, 2012] Restrictor View) is correct. Modus Ponens and Backtracking: (1) In typical causal-model frameworks, such as that of Briggs 2012, invalidating Modus Ponens causes the misevaluation of a class of right-embedded conditionals. (2) Changing the semantics to fix for this problem makes Modus Ponens valid and results in many more backtrackers coming out true. Modus Ponens and the Material Conditional: Even granting to proponents of the material-conditional analysis many core features of their view--including the validity of Modus Ponens--the controversial principles appealed to in the direct arguments do not force the truth conditional equivalence of the indicative and the material conditional.
Author : Timothy Williamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198860668
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Suppose and Tell written by Timothy Williamson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does 'if' mean? Timothy Williamson presents a controversial new approach to understanding conditional thinking, which is central to human cognitive life. He argues that in using 'if' we rely on psychological heuristics, fast and frugal methods which can lead us to trust faulty data and prematurely reject simple theories.
Author : Christoph Hoerl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199590699
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation written by Christoph Hoerl and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve essays explore what bearing empirical findings might have on philosophical concerns about counterfactuals and causation, and how, in turn, work in philosophy might help clarify issues in empirical work on the relationships between causal and counterfactual thought.
Author : Jonathan Bennett
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 019153174X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals written by Jonathan Bennett and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conditional sentences are among the most intriguing and puzzling features of language: analysis of their meaning and function has important implications for, and uses in, many areas of philosophy. Jonathan Bennett, one of the world's leading experts, distils many years' work and teaching into this Philosophical Guide to Conditionals, the fullest and most authoritative treatment of the subject. The literature on conditionals is difficult - needlessly so. Bennett's treatment is meticulously careful and luminously clear. He presents and evaluates in detail various approaches to the understanding of 'indicative' conditionals (like 'If Shakespeare didn't write Hamlet, some aristocrat did') and 'subjunctive' conditionals (like 'If rabbits had not been deliberately introduced into New Zealand, there would be none there today'); and he offers his own view, which will be recognized as a major original contribution to the subject. Journeying through this intellectual territory brings one into contact with the metaphysics of possible worlds, probability and belief-change, probability and logic, the pragmatics of conversation, determinism, ambiguity, vagueness, the law of excluded middle, facts versus events, and more. One might perhaps learn more philosophy from a thorough study of conditionals than from any other kind of work. Bennett's Guide is an ideal introduction for undergraduates with a philosophical grounding, and will also be a rich source of illumination and stimulation for graduate students and professional philosophers.
Author : Bob Hale
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118972082
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the Philosophy of Language written by Bob Hale and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language.” Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm University Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly extended and now includes a monumental 17 new essays – with topics chosen by the editors, who curated suggestions from current contributors – and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts, and debates, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates, as well as addressing a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended “state-of-the-art” chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competitor volumes. Unrivaled in scope, this volume represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to the philosophy of language.
Author : David Sanford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135199310
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book If P, Then Q written by David Sanford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition includes three new chapters, updating the book to take into account developments in the field over the past fifteen years.
Author : R. Bäuerle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642674585
Total Pages : 430 pages
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Download or read book Semantics from Different Points of View written by R. Bäuerle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E.W. Adams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940157622X
Total Pages : 173 pages
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Download or read book The Logic of Conditionals written by E.W. Adams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the four chapters in this book, the first two discuss (albeit in consider ably modified form) matters previously discussed in my papers 'On the Logic of Conditionals' [1] and 'Probability and the Logic of Conditionals' [2], while the last two present essentially new material. Chapter I is relatively informal and roughly parallels the first of the above papers in discussing the basic ideas of a probabilistic approach to the logic of the indicative conditional, according to which these constructions do not have truth values, but they do have probabilities (equal to conditional probabilities), and the appropriate criterion of soundness for inferences involving them is that it should not be possible for all premises of the inference to be probable while the conclusion is improbable. Applying this criterion is shown to have radically different consequences from the orthodox 'material conditional' theory, not only in application to the standard 'fallacies' of the material conditional, but to many forms (e. g. , Contraposition) which have hitherto been regarded as above suspi cion. Many more applications are considered in Chapter I, as well as certain related theoretical matters. The chief of these, which is the most important new topic treated in Chapter I (i. e.
Author : Marc Lange
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019974503X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Laws and Lawmakers written by Marc Lange and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What distinguishes laws of nature from ordinary facts? What are the "lawmakers": the facts in virtue of which the laws are laws? How can laws be necessary, yet contingent? Lange provocatively argues that laws are distinguished by their necessity, which is grounded in primitive subjunctive facts, while also providing a non-technical and accessible survey of the field.
Author : Luther Jose
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Total Pages : 124 pages
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Download or read book Analysis of Counterfactual Conditionals written by Luther Jose and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yiu-ming Fung
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030290336
Total Pages : 545 pages
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Download or read book Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy of Logic written by Yiu-ming Fung and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a companion to logical thought and logical thinking in China with a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It introduces the basic ideas and theories of Chinese thought in a comprehensive and analytical way. It covers thoughts in ancient, pre-modern and modern China from a historical point of view. It deals with topics in logical (including logico-philosophical) concepts and theories rooted in China, Indian and Western Logic transplanted to China, and the development of logical studies in contemporary China and other Chinese communities. The term “philosophy of logic” or “logico-philosophical thought” is used in this book to represent “logical thought” in a broad sense which includes thinking on logical concepts, modes of reasoning, and linguistic ideas related to logic and philosophical logic. Unique in its approach, the book uses Western logical theories and philosophy of language, Chinese philology, and history of ideas to deal with the basic ideas and major problems in logical thought and logical thinking in China. In doing so, it advances the understanding of the lost tradition in Chinese philosophical studies.
Author : W.L. Harper
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400991177
Total Pages : 345 pages
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Download or read book IFS written by W.L. Harper and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With publication of the present volume, The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science enters its second phase. The first fourteen volumes in the Series were produced under the managing editorship of Professor James J. Leach, with the cooperation of a local editorial board. Many of these volumes resulted from colloguia and workshops held in con nection with the University of Western Ontario Graduate Programme in Philosophy of Science. Throughout its seven year history, the Series has been devoted to publication of high quality work in philosophy of science con sidered in its widest extent, including work in philosophy of the special sciences and history of the conceptual development of science. In future, this general editorial emphasis will be maintained, and hopefully, broadened to include important works by scholars working outside the local context. Appointment of a new managing editor, together with an expanded editorial board, brings with it the hope of an enlarged international presence for the Series. Serving the publication needs of those working in the various subfields within philosophy of science is a many-faceted operation. Thus in future the Series will continue to produce edited proceedings of worthwhile scholarly meetings and edited collections of seminal background papers. How ever, the publication priorities will shift emphasis to favour production of monographs in the various fields covered by the scope of the Series. THE MANAGING EDITOR vii W. L. Harper, R. Stalnaker, and G. Pearce (eds.), lIs, vii.
