| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Lee Walters -- Philosophy and me / Dorothy Edgington -- A note on conditionals and restrictors / Daniel Rothschild -- Chasing hook : quantified indicative conditionals / Angelika Kratzer -- New paradigm psychology of conditional reasoning and its philosophical sources / David Over -- Counterfactuals to the rescue / Cleo Condoravdi -- Counterfactuals and probability / Robert Stalnaker -- Grammar matters / Sabine Iatridou -- Constructing the impossible / Kit Fine -- The epistemic use of 'ought' / John Hawthorne -- Undercutting defeat and Edgington's burglar / Scott Sturgeon -- Edgington on possible knowledge of unknown truth / Timothy Williamson -- Prefaces, sorites, and guides to reasoning / Rosanna Keefe -- Hysteresis hypotheses / Alan Hájek -- Verities and truth-values / Nicholas K. Jones |
| Summary |
'Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability' comprises fifteen original essays on themes from the work of Dorothy Edgington, the first woman to hold a chair in philosophy at Oxford. Eminent contributors from philosophy and linguistics discuss a range of topics including conditionals, vagueness, knowledge, reasoning, and probability |
| Notes |
This edition previously issued in print: 2020 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 10, 2020) |
| Subject |
Edgington, Dorothy
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Linguistics.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Conditionals.
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Linguistics
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linguistics.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Conditionals
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Language and languages -- Philosophy
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Linguistics
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Festschriften.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Edgington, Dorothy, honouree
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Walters, Lee, editor
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Hawthorne, John (John P.), editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191781070 |
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019178107X |
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