A philosophical guide to conditionals /

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The author, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of conditional sentences, distils many years' work and teaching into 'A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals', an authoritative treatment of the subject.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bennett, Jonathan, 1930-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Conditionals (Logic)
Conditionnel (Logique)
PHILOSOPHY > Logic.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1. Some questions
  • 2. Defining 'conditional'
  • 3. Challenging the ternary structure
  • 4. Two types of conditional
  • 5. Labels for the two types
  • 6. The relocation thesis
  • 7. Independent conditionals
  • 8. Idioms
  • 2. The Material Conditional: Grice
  • 9. The horseshoe analysis: is (omitted)
  • 10. Conversational implicature
  • 11. Semantic Occamism
  • 12. The Ramsey test
  • 13. Ramsey and Grice
  • 3. The Material Conditional: Jackson
  • 14. Setting the scene
  • 15. Conventional implicature
  • 16. The case against Jackson's theory.
  • 17. The unity point
  • 18. The or-to-if inference
  • 4. The Equation
  • 19. Other approaches
  • 20. Kinds of probability
  • 21. Elements of probability logic
  • 22. The Ratio Formula
  • 23. Indicative conditionals are zero-intolerant
  • 24. The Equation
  • 5. The Equation Attacked
  • 25. Lewis against the Equation
  • 26. Improving on Conditionalization
  • 27. Carlstrom and Hill against the Equation
  • 28. Hájek's reinforcement of that argument
  • 29. Stalnaker against the Equation
  • 30. Some ways of escape
  • 31. Hájek against the Equation
  • 6. The Subjectivity of Indicative Conditionals.
  • 32. Trying to objectivize the Ramsey test
  • 33. Davis's theory
  • 34. Gibbardian stand-offs
  • 35. How special are stand-offs? Does it matter?
  • 36. Subjectivity through self-description
  • 37. Subjectivity without self-description
  • 7. Indicative Conditionals Lack Truth Values
  • 38. NTV
  • 39. Embedding indicative conditionals
  • 40. A special case: A (B C)
  • 41. Four routes to NTV
  • 42. NTV and moral expressivism
  • 43. The salutary limits of NTV
  • 44. Meaning and expressing
  • 45. 'If ' and 'when'
  • 8. Uses of Indicative Conditionals
  • 46. True False is false
  • 47. Is True & 8594.
  • True true?
  • 48. Inference tickets
  • 49. Robustness[sub(1)] and robustness[sub(2)]
  • 50. Non-interference indicative conditionals
  • 51. Indicative conditionals and speech acts
  • 52. Biscuit conditionals
  • 9. The Logic of Indicative Conditionals
  • 53. Probabilistic validity
  • 54. A C and Modus Ponens
  • 55. Adams's use of Venn diagrams
  • 56. Adams and Venn: comparisons and contrasts
  • 57. Four probabilistically invalid argument forms
  • 58. Or-to-if
  • 59. Contraposition
  • 60. Transitivity and antecedent strengthening
  • 61. Modus Ponens
  • 62. Independent indicatives.
  • 10. Subjunctive Conditionals-First Steps
  • 63. Worlds: extreme realism
  • 64. Worlds: abstract realism
  • 65. Two false logical principles
  • 66. Attempts to preserve the principles
  • 67. Variably strict conditionals
  • 68. Conditionals with disjunctive antecedents
  • 69. Why the logics are so alike
  • 11. The Competition for 'Closest'
  • 70. The limit assumption
  • 71. The consequent as context
  • 72. Conditional Excluded Middle
  • 73. 'Might'
  • 12. Unrolling from the Antecedent Time
  • 74. Closeness and similarity
  • 75. A> Big-difference
  • 76. Objective indeterminateness
  • 13. Forks.

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