Counterfactual conditionals
Subtitle: orthodoxy and its challenges
By: Daniel Dohrn
Series: Mimesis International literature/language -- 3; Literature (Mimesis International) -- n. 3.
Publisher: Mimesis International
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Italy]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9788869773037
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Counterfactuals (Logic)
Description: "In Counterfactual Conditionals, Daniel Dohrn discusses the standard account of counterfactuals, conditionals of the form ‘If A had been the case, then B would have been the case’. According to the standard account, a counterfactual is true if the then-sentence is true in all closest worlds in which the if-sentence is true. Closeness is spelled out in terms of an ordering of worlds by their similarity. Dohrn explores resources of defending the standard account against several challenges. In particular, he defends the standard logics for counterfactuals. He discusses exemplary doubts as to whether conditionals have truth conditions. He inquiries into the interaction between truth and probability of counterfactuals. He tackles problems with the similarity ordering. He addresses the interaction between counterfactuals and normalcy conditions. He closes with elaborating peculiarities of future-directed counterfactuals."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Counterfactual Conditionals in the Philosophy of Language; title: The Basics : Goodman and the Problem of Cotenability; title: Minimal Difference/Divergence/Departure: The Stalnaker-Lewis Semantics : Stalnaker ; Sobel and Similarity: Lewis ; Orthodoxy à la Kratzer; title: Challenges to Orthodoxy : Logics; title: Challenging Truth-Conditions: Gibbard Cases; title: Probabilities : Proposals in the Literature: Schulz's Arbitrariness Account ; Barnett's Suppositional Account ; A New Proposal: Non-Maximality; title: Problems with Similarity : Morgenbesser Case; title: World Convergence Made Easy: The Future Similarity Objection: Elga Worlds ; Bennett Worlds; title: Typicality; title: Will and Were.