Justin Khoo

The Meaning of If

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Despite its small stature, "if" occupies a central place both in everyday language and the philosophical lexicon. In allowing us to talk about hypothetical situations, "if" raises a host of thorny philosophical puzzles about language and logic. Addressing them requires tools from linguistics, logic, probability theory, and metaphysics. Justin Khoo uses these tools to navigate a maze of interconnected issues about conditionals, some of which include: the nature of linguistic communication, the relationship between logical and natural languages, and the relationship between different kinds of modality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 145mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780190096700
• ISBN-10: 0190096705
• Artikelnr.: 63983205

Autorenporträt

Justin Khoo is Associate Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He received his BA in philosophy from UC-Davis in 2006 and his PhD in philosophy from Yale in 2013. His research and teaching are focused primarily on philosophy of language, philosophical logic, meta-ethics, and metaphysics. His work has appeared in various journals, including Journal of Semantics, Mind, Noûs, and Philosophers' Imprint, among others. He co-edited (with Rachel Katharine Sterken) the Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I: Framework
Chapter 1: Bounding Puzzles
Chapter 2: Situating the Puzzles in the Literature
Chapter 3: Domain Inferentialism
Chapter 4: Sequence Semantics
Part II: Probabilities
Chapter 5: Probabilities of Conditionals
Chapter 6: Partition Dependence
Part III: Subjunctive vs. Indicative
Chapter 7: Subjunctive Conditionals: The Role of Tense
Chapter 8: Temporal Past
Chapter 9: Sufficiency Networks
Chapter 10: Subjunctive Probabilities