A philosophical guide to conditionals
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A philosophical guide to conditionals
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-379) and indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Conditional sentences are among the most intriguing and puzzling features of language: analysis of their meaning and function has important implications for, and uses in, many areas of philosophy. Jonathan Bennett distils many years' work and teaching into this guide and authoritative treatment of the subject. The literature on conditionals is difficult - needlessly so, argues Bennett. He presents and evaluates in detail various approaches to the understanding of "indicative" conditionals (like "If Shakespeare didn't write Hamlet, some aristocrat did") and "subjunctive" conditionals (like "If rabbits had not been deliberately introduced into New Zealand, there would be none there today"); and he offers his own view.
目次
- 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
- References
- Index of Persons
- Index of Topics
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