IFS Conditionals, Belief, Decision, Chance and Time
With publication of the present volume, The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science enters its second phase. The first fourteen volumes in the Series were produced under the managing editorship of Professor James J. Leach, with the cooperation of a local editorial board. Many o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1981, 1981
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1981 |
| Series: | The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1: Introduction
- A Sketch of Some Recent Developments in the Theory of Conditionals
- 2: The Classic Stalnaker-Lewis Theory of Conditionals
- A Theory of Conditionals
- Counterfactuals and Comparative Possibility
- A Defense of Conditional Excluded Middle
- 3. Conditionals and Subjective Conditional Probability (The Ramsey Test Paradigm)
- Probability and Conditionals
- Probabilities of Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities
- 4: Conditionals for Decision Making (Another Paradigm)
- Letter to David Lewis
- Counterfactuals and Two Kinds of Expected Utility
- 5: Indicative vs. Subjunctive Conditionals
- Indicative Conditionals
- Two Recent Theories of Conditionals
- Indicative Conditionals and Conditional Probability
- Indicative Conditionals and Conditional Probability: Reply to Pollock
- 6: Chance, Time, and the Subjunctive Conditional
- The Prior Propensity Account of Subjunctive Conditionals
- A Subjectivisms Guide to Objective Chance
- A Theory of Conditionals in the Context of Branching Time
- A Temporal Framework for Conditionals and Chance