A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals
(Sprache: Englisch)
Conditional sentences are among the most intriguing and puzzling features of language, and 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,...
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Conditional sentences are among the most intriguing and puzzling features of language, and 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. An ideal introduction for undergraduates with a philosophical grounding, it also offers a rich source of illumination and stimulation for graduate students and professional philosophers.
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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
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Jonathan Francis Bennett , Jonathan Bennett
- 2003, 408 Seiten, Maße: 16,3 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- ISBN-10: 0199258872
- ISBN-13: 9780199258871
Sprache:
Englisch
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Bennett's welcome guide ... exhibits good common sense ... presents good explanations of technical work to nontechnical readers, and most importantly, provides the only book available where we can find the whole literature on conditionals vigorously explained and analyzed. Richard Mendelsohn, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Jonathan Bennett sets out in this ambitious project to provide a complete and thorough guide to the subject of philosophical conditionals. I suspect that in lesser hands this text could have become something of a chore, taking on, as it does, aspects of semantics that are highly technical and difficult to work through. But in this case the results are delightful. Bennett explores the field of conditionals without needless technicality, (indeed on occasion one wonders that others have managed to make such heavy work in a field that seems so simple when presented thus) is pellucidly clear at all times and, above all, makes the topic of conditionals interesting and relevant to the reader. Jonathan Tallant, Philosophical Writings
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