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9ConditionalsIn Lou Goble (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic, Blackwell. 2017.It is controversial how best to classify conditionals. According to some theorists, the forward‐looking indicatives (those with a ‘will’ in the main clause) belong with the subjunctives (those with a ‘would’ in the main clause), and not with the other indicatives. The easy transition from typical ‘wills’ to ‘woulds’ is indeed a datum to be explained. Still, straightforward statements about the past, present or future, to which a conditional clause is attached—the traditional class of indicative …Read more
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Schiffer on Indeterminacy, Vagueness, and ConditionalsIn Gary Ostertag (ed.), Meanings and Other Things: Themes From the Work of Stephen Schiffer, Oxford University Press. 2016.
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Counterfactual conditionalsIn Otávio Bueno & Scott A. Shalkowski (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Modality, Routledge. 2018.
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Philosophy and meIn Lee Walters & John Hawthorne (eds.), Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability: Themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington., Oxford University Press. 2021.
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67Suppose and Tell: The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals: Timothy Williamson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. viii + 278 pp. £30.00. ISBN 978-0-19-886066-2History and Philosophy of Logic 43 (2): 188-195. 2021.Conditional judgements—judgements employing ‘if’—are essential to practical reasoning about what to do, as well as to much reasoning about what is the case. We handle them well enough from an early...
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The Pragmatics of the Logical ConstantsIn Ernest Lepore & Barry C. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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85Frank RamseyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2019.Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–30) made seminal contributions to philosophy, mathematics and economics. Whilst he was acknowledged as a genius by his contemporaries, some of his most important ideas were not appreciated until decades later; now better appreciated, they continue to bear an influence upon contemporary philosophy. His historic significance was to usher in a new phase of analytic philosophy, which initially built upon the logical atomist doctrines of Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgen…Read more
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43I-CounterfactualsProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 108 (1pt1): 1-21. 2008.I argue that the suppositional view of conditionals, which is quite popular for indicative conditionals, extends also to subjunctive or counterfactual conditionals. According to this view, conditional judgements should not be construed as factual, categorical judgements, but as judgements about the consequent under the supposition of the antecedent. The strongest evidence for the view comes from focusing on the fact that conditional judgements are often uncertain; and conditional uncertainty, wh…Read more
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13What if? Questions About ConditionalsMind and Language 18 (4): 380-401. 2003.Section 1 briefly examines three theories of indicative conditionals. The Suppositional Theory is defended, and shown to be incompatible with understanding conditionals in terms of truth conditions. Section 2 discusses the psychological evidence about conditionals reported by Over and Evans (this volume). Section 3 discusses the syntactic grounds offered by Haegeman (this volume) for distinguishing two sorts of conditional.
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1Analysis 52.4 october 1992In Delia Graff & Timothy Williamson (eds.), Vagueness, Ashgate. pp. 27--207. 2002.
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HUNTER, G. "Metalogic: An Introduction to the Metatheory of Standard First Order Logic" (review)Mind 83 (n/a): 461. 1974.
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695Two Kinds of PossibilityAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 78 (1): 1-22. 2004.I defend a version of Kripke's claim that the metaphysically necessary and the knowable a priori are independent. On my version, there are two independent families of modal notions, metaphysical and epistemic, neither stronger than the other. Metaphysical possibility is constrained by the laws of nature. Logical validity, I suggest, is best understood in terms of epistemic necessity.
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91The applicability of bayesian convergence-of-opinion theorems to the case of actual scientific inferenceBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 27 (2): 160-161. 1976.
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59The philosophical problem of vaguenessLegal Theory 7 (4): 371-378. 2001.Think of the color spectrum, spread out before you. You can identify the different colors with ease. But if you are asked to indicate the point at which one color ends and the next begins, you are at a loss. "There is no such point", is a natural thought: one color just shades gradually into the next
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91Estimating Conditional Chances and Evaluating CounterfactualsStudia Logica 102 (4): 691-707. 2014.The paper addresses a puzzle about the probabilistic evaluation of counterfactuals, raised by Ernest Adams as a problem for his own theory. I discuss Brian Skyrms’s response to the puzzle. I compare this puzzle with other puzzles about counterfactuals that have arisen more recently. And I attempt to solve the puzzle in a way that is consistent with Adams’s proposal about counterfactuals
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14The Mystery of the Missing BoundaryPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (3): 704-711. 2005.
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