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Subjunctive Reasoning

I am indebted to many people for the help they gave me in the writing of this book. lowe a large debt to David Lewis and Robert Stalnaker, on both general and specific grounds. As becomes apparent from reading the notes, the book would not have been possible without their pioneering work on subjunct...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pollock, J.L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1976, 1976
Edition:1st ed. 1976
Series:Philosophical Studies Series
Subjects:
Philosophy, Modern
Early Modern Philosophy
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • 1. Subjunctive Reasoning
  • 2. The Linguistic Approach
  • 3. The ‘Possible Worlds’ Approach
  • 4. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • II. Four Kinds of Conditionals
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Four Kinds
  • 3. ‘Even if’ Subjunctives
  • 4. ‘Might Be’ Conditionals
  • 5. Necessitation Conditionals
  • 6. Simple Subjunctives
  • 7. The Axiomatization of Simple Subjunctives
  • 8. Conclusions 44
  • Notes
  • III. Subjunctive Generalizations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Rudiments of an Analysis
  • 3. Strong Generalizations
  • 4. Weak Generalizations
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • IV. The Basic Analysis of Subjunctive Conditionals
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Analysis of M
  • 3. Simple Propositions
  • 4. Counter-Legal Conditionals
  • 5. Subject Preference
  • Notes
  • V. Quantification, Modalities, and Conditionals
  • 1. Referential Opacity
  • 2. Transworld Identity
  • 3. Kripke’s Observation
  • 4. Quantified Modal Logic
  • 5. Conditionals
  • Notes
  • VI. The Full Theory
  • 1. Syntax
  • 2. Semantics
  • 3. Infinitary Operators
  • 4. The Introduction of Sets
  • 5. Some Consequences of the Analysis
  • Note
  • VII. Causes
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Ontology of Causes
  • 3. Some Causal Relations
  • 4. Causal Sufficiency
  • 5. Remarks on the Analysis
  • >6. The Logic of Causes
  • Notes
  • VIII. Probabilities
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Indefinite Probabilities
  • 3. The Redefinition of M
  • 4. Simple Subjunctive Probability
  • Notes
  • IX. Dispositions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Absolute Dispositions
  • >3. Probabilistic Dispositions
  • Notes
  • >Index

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