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

• Autore: Bennett Jonathan <1930->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 pages)
• Disciplina: 160
• Soggetto topico: Conditionals (Logic)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A philosophical guide to conditionals
• ISBN: 0-19-159704-X; 9786612007224; 1-282-00722-X; 0-19-153174-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454074303321
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