David Sanford

If P, Then Q

Conditionals and the Foundations of Reasoning

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition includes three new chapters, updating the book to take into account developments in the field over the past fifteen years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780415283694
• ISBN-10: 0415283698
• Artikelnr.: 21030395

Autorenporträt

David Sanford is Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, North Carolina, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Conditionals in Everyday Life and in Philosophy
I: The History of Philosophical Treatments of Conditionals
I: Ancient History
II: Medieval and Post-medieval History
III: Rediscovery of the Material Conditional
IV: Rediscovery of the Strict Conditional
V: Subjunctive Conditionals and Covering Laws
VI: Belief and Probability
VII: Possible Worlds
II: A New Treatment of Conditionals
VIII: Inference, Entailment, and the Purposes of Theories
IX: Problems with the Ramsey Test, Possible Worlds, and Probability
X: Various Visions of Possible Worlds
XI: Laws and Conditions
XII: Counterfactual Dependence and Backtracking
XIII: Patterns of Dependence
XIV: Objective Dependence
XV: A Problem with Validity