1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777712703321

Autore

Bennett Jonathan <1930->

Titolo

A philosophical guide to conditionals [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan Bennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-19-159704-X

9786612007224

1-282-00722-X

0-19-153174-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 pages)

Disciplina

160

Soggetti

Conditionals (Logic)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-379) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction --2. The Material Condition: Grice --3. The Material Condition: Jackson --4. The Equation --5. The Equation Attacked --6. The Subjectivity of Indicative Conditionals --7. Indicative Conditionals Lack Truth Values --8. Uses of Indicative Conditionals --9. The Logic of Indicative Conditionals --10. Subjunctive Conditionals: First Steps --11. The Competition for 'Closest' --12. Unrolling from the Antecedent Time --13. Forks --14. Reflections on Legality --15. Truth at the Actual World --16. Subjunctive Conditionals and Probability --17. 'Even If ... ' --18. Backward Subjunctive Conditionals --19. Subjunctive Conditionals and Time's Arrow --20. Support Theories --21. The Need for Worlds --22. Relating the Two Kinds of Conditional --23. Unifying the Two Kinds of Conditional.

Sommario/riassunto

Conditionals are of two basic kinds, often called ‘indicative’ and ‘subjunctive’. This book expounds and evaluates the main literature about each kind. It eventually defends the view of Adams and Edgington that indicatives are devices for expressing subjective probabilities, and the view of Stalnaker and Lewis that subjunctives are statements about close possible worlds. But it also discusses other views, e.g. that indicatives are really material conditionals, and



Goodman's approach to subjunctives.

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910298509503321

Autore

Pesce Antonio

Titolo

Economic Cycles in Emerging and Advanced Countries : Synchronization, International Spillovers and the Decoupling Hypothesis / / by Antonio Pesce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-17085-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Contributions to Economics, , 1431-1933

Disciplina

338.5/42

338.542

Soggetti

International economic relations

Econometrics

Macroeconomics

Economic policy

Trade

Business

Commerce

International Economics

Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics

Economic Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The Decoupling of Emerging Economies, a Long-Debated Issue but Still an Open Question. A Survey -- Is Decoupling in Action?- The International (Spillovers in) Macroeconomic-Credit



Linkages and the Decoupling Phenomenon -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book contributes to the debate on the decoupling of emerging economies from the advanced economies with a new, empirical investigation approach. Taking counterfactual experiments performed using a time-varying panel VAR model, the author argues that over the last thirty years, emerging economies have become less vulnerable to shocks spreading from advanced economies. This resilience to external shocks has changed in a non-progressive manner over time, with phases of greater resilience followed by others of lower resilience and vice versa. This research outlines its wave-like path and presents new results that contribute to the discussion.