Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability
Themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 11 February 2021
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780198712732 |
| ISBN10: | 0198712731 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 288 pages |
| Size: | 242x160x20 mm |
| Weight: | 1 g |
| Language: | English |
| 287 |
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Short description:
Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability comprises fifteen original essays on themes from the work of Dorothy Edgington, the first woman to hold a chair in philosophy at Oxford. Eminent contributors from philosophy and linguistics discuss a range of topics including conditionals, vagueness, knowledge, reasoning, and probability.
Long description:
Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability brings together fifteen original essays by experts in philosophy and linguistics. These specially written chapters draw on themes from the work of Dorothy Edgington, the first woman to hold a chair in philosophy at the University of Oxford. The contributors to this volume focus on the key topics to which Edgington has made many important contributions, including conditionals, vagueness, the paradox of knowability, and probability. Their insights will be of interest to philosophers, linguists, and psychologists working in philosophical logic, natural language semantics, and reasoning.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Philosophy and Me
A Note on Conditionals and Restrictors
Chasing Hook: Quantified Indicative Conditionals
New Paradigm Psychology of Conditional Reasoning and its Philosophical Sources
Counterfactuals to the Rescue
Counterfactuals and Probability
Grammar Matters
Constructing the Impossible
The Epistemic Use of 'Ought'
Undercutting Defeat and Edgington's Burglar
Edgington on Possible Knowledge of Unknown Truth
Prefaces, Sorites and Guides to Reasoning
Hysteresis Hypotheses
Verities and Truth-values
Bibliography of Edgington's Work
Philosophy and Me
A Note on Conditionals and Restrictors
Chasing Hook: Quantified Indicative Conditionals
New Paradigm Psychology of Conditional Reasoning and its Philosophical Sources
Counterfactuals to the Rescue
Counterfactuals and Probability
Grammar Matters
Constructing the Impossible
The Epistemic Use of 'Ought'
Undercutting Defeat and Edgington's Burglar
Edgington on Possible Knowledge of Unknown Truth
Prefaces, Sorites and Guides to Reasoning
Hysteresis Hypotheses
Verities and Truth-values
Bibliography of Edgington's Work
