Subjunctive Conditionals

Author : Michela Ippolito
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262019484

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Subjunctive Conditionals by Michela Ippolito Pdf

A proposal for a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English. In this book, Michela Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent clauses. Very little of the extensive literature on subjunctive conditionals tries to account for the meaning of these sentences compositionally or to relate this meaning to their linguistic form; this book fills that gap, connecting the different lines of research on conditionals. Ippolito's proposal will be of interest both to linguists and to philosophers concerned with conditionals and modality more generally. Ippolito reviews previous analyses of counterfactuals and subjunctive conditionals in the work of David Lewis, Robert Stalnaker, Angelika Kratzer, and others; considers the contrast between future simple past subjunctive conditionals and future past perfect subjunctive conditionals; presents a proposal for subjunctive conditionals that addresses puzzles left unsolved by previous proposals; reviews a number of presupposition triggers showing that they fit the pattern predicted by her proposal; and discusses an asymmetry between the past and the future among subjunctive conditionals, arguing that the best account of our linguistic intuitions must include an indeterministic view of the world.

Author : Robert C. Stalnaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198810346

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Knowledge and Conditionals by Robert C. Stalnaker Pdf

Robert C. Stalnaker presents a set of essays on the structure of inquiry. In the first part he focuses on the concepts of knowledge, belief, and partial belief, and on the rules and procedures we use - or ought to use - to determine what to believe, and what to claim that we know. In thesecond part he examines conditional statements and conditional beliefs, their role in epistemology, and their relations to causal and explanatory concepts, such as dispositions, objective chance, relations of dependence, and independence. A central concern of the book is the interaction of differentcognitive perspectives - the ways in which the attitudes of rational agents are or should be influenced by critical reflection on their present cognitive situation, on their own cognitive situations at other times, and on the cognitive situations of others with whom they interact.The general picture that is developed is naturalistic, following Hume in rejecting a substantive role for pure reason in the defense of inductive rules, and in giving causal concepts a central role in the description and explanation of our cognitive practices. However, Stalnaker rejects the side ofHume that aims to reduce concepts involving natural necessity to more basic descriptive concepts. Instead, he argues that the development of inductive rules and practices takes place in interaction with the development of concepts for giving a theoretical description of the world.

Author : Lee Walters,John Hawthorne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191021343

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Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability by Lee Walters,John Hawthorne Pdf

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.

Author : Jonathan Bennett
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191531743

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A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals by Jonathan Bennett Pdf

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, one of the world's leading experts, distils many years' work and teaching into this Philosophical Guide to Conditionals, the fullest and most authoritative treatment of the subject. The literature on conditionals is difficult - needlessly so. Bennett's treatment is meticulously careful and luminously clear. 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, which will be recognized as a major original contribution to the subject. Journeying through this intellectual territory brings one into contact with the metaphysics of possible worlds, probability and belief-change, probability and logic, the pragmatics of conversation, determinism, ambiguity, vagueness, the law of excluded middle, facts versus events, and more. One might perhaps learn more philosophy from a thorough study of conditionals than from any other kind of work. Bennett's Guide is an ideal introduction for undergraduates with a philosophical grounding, and will also be a rich source of illumination and stimulation for graduate students and professional philosophers.

Author : Chi-Hé Elder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030137991

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Context, Cognition and Conditionals by Chi-Hé Elder Pdf

This book proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional sentences can be put; and (ii) both conditional sentences of the form ‘if p, q’ and those conditional thoughts that are expressed without using ‘if’. It presents theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence from English and other languages in support of the thesis that an adequate study of conditionals has to go beyond an analysis of specific sentence forms or lexical items. The resulting perspective on conditionals is one in which conditionality is located at a higher level than that of the sentence; namely, at the level of thought. The author argues that it is only through adopting such a perspective, and with it, a commitment to context-dependent semantics, that we can successfully represent conditional utterances as they are used and understood by ordinary language users. It will be of interest to students and scholars working on the semantics of conditionals in the fields of linguistics (especially semantics and pragmatics) and philosophy of language.

Author : Jonathan Bennett,Jonathan Francis Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199258871

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A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals by Jonathan Bennett,Jonathan Francis Bennett Pdf

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.

Author : Igor Douven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107111455

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The Epistemology of Indicative Conditionals by Igor Douven Pdf

Addresses central questions concerning conditionals by combining the methods of formal epistemology with those of cognitive psychology.

Author : Frank Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134707942

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Mind, Method and Conditionals by Frank Jackson Pdf

First Published in 2004. This collection of essays brings together some of Jackson's most influential publications on mind, action, conditionals, method in metaphysics, ethics and induction. The papers have been revised for this volume and the collection also includes additional material by ay of endnotes and corrections. It also includes two new postscripts- one on conditionals and one disavowing the knowledge argument.

Author : Ian Ravenscroft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199267989

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Minds, Ethics, and Conditionals by Ian Ravenscroft Pdf

An illustrious international line-up of contributors present new essays on themes from the philosophy of Frank Jackson, discussing his groundbreaking work on supervenience and conceptual analysis; mind and colour; normative ethics and metaethics; and conditionals. Jackson offers a substantial and illuminating reply to his critics.

Author : Donald Nute
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980-02-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 902771049X

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Topics in Conditional Logic by Donald Nute Pdf

Author : Samuel Newlands,Larry M. Jorgensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199542680

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Metaphysics and the Good by Samuel Newlands,Larry M. Jorgensen Pdf

A collection of original essays by leading philosophers dedicated to exploring many of the facets of Robert M. Adams's thought, a philosophical outlook that combines Christian theism, neo-Platonism, moral realism, metaphysical idealism, and a commitment to both historical sensitivity and rigorous analytic engagement.

Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191519567

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The Seas of Language by Michael Dummett Pdf

Michael Dummett is one of the most important and influential of contemporary philosophers; this book covers his work in the closely related fields of metaphysics and the philosophy of language.

Author : Johan Mårtensson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028981426

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Subjunctive Conditionals and Time by Johan Mårtensson Pdf

Author : Dermot Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1041 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134424030

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The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy by Dermot Moran Pdf

Featuring twenty-two chapters written by leading international scholars, this major publication covers all the key figures and movements from Frege to Derrida and philosophy of language to feminist philosophy.

Author : Juhani Yli-Vakkuri,Mark McCullagh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351730044

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Williamson on Modality by Juhani Yli-Vakkuri,Mark McCullagh Pdf

Timothy Williamson is one of the most influential living philosophers working in the areas of logic and metaphysics. His work in these areas has been particularly influential in shaping debates about metaphysical modality, which is the topic of his recent provocative and closely-argued book Modal Logic as Metaphysics (2013). This book comprises ten essays by metaphysicians and logicians responding to Williamson’s work on metaphysical modality, as well as replies by Williamson to each essay. In addition, it contains an original essay by Williamson, ‘Modal science,’ concerning the role of modal claims in natural science. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.