Real Conditionals
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 July 2001
- ISBN 9780199242078
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages234 pages
- Size 225x145x18 mm
- Weight 402 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 figures 0
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Short description:
William G. Lycan offers a fresh original approach to the long-running debate among philosophers and logicians about the best way to analyse and understand conditional sentences. Lycan attends not just to the semantics of such sentences, but equally to their syntax, making use of insights from linguistic theory. Real Conditionals is the definitive presentation of Lycan's view, written in his characteristically lively style.
MoreLong description:
Philosophers and logicians have long debated how best to understand conditional or hypothetical sentences. William G. Lycan has a distinctive approach to this debate, attending not just to the semantics of such sentences, but equally to their syntax. He shows how insights from linguistic theory help to illuminate problems about the meaning and function of conditionals. For instance, philosophers and logicians have had problems analysing the locutions 'only if', 'unless', and 'even if'. Lycan sets out a general semantic theory of conditionals which works for all such sentences; he assigns meanings to them in a way that explains how and why those meanings depend upon features of utterance context. According to Lycan's theory the 'if'-clauses refer to items called 'events', 'circumstances', or 'conditions'.
Real Conditionals gives at last the definitive presentation of this original approach to a topic at the intersection of philosophy, logic, and linguistics. Lycan's characteristically lively and witty expository style ensures that it can be enjoyed by readers from all three disciplines.
There's alot to like about this book, not least its witty, even charming, style. Lycan considers more examples, from more diverse sources, than most writers. The theory he presents is innovative and at least aims to be comprehensive. And of course there are some good arguments for it.
Table of Contents:
Preface, Acknowledgements
The Syntax of Conditional Sentences
Truth Conditions: The Event Theory
Truth Conditions: Reality and Modus Ponens
In Defense of Truth-Value
A Beautiful But False Theory of 'Even If'
An Unbeautiful But Less Easily Refuatable Theory of 'Even If'
The 'Indicative'/'Subjunctive' Distinction
The Riverboat Puzzle
Appendix: 'Nonconditional Conditionals' (with Michael L. Geis)
Revisionary Postscript on Nonconditional Conditionals
Bibliography, Index
