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themes from the philosophy of Dorothy Edgington
1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
'Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability' comprises fifteen original essays on themes from the work of Dorothy Edgington, the first woman to hold a chair in philosophy at Oxford. Eminent contributors from philosophy and linguistics discuss a range of topics including conditionals, vagueness, knowledge, reasoning, and probability.
Introduction / Lee Walters -- Philosophy and me / Dorothy Edgington -- A note on conditionals and restrictors / Daniel Rothschild -- Chasing hook : quantified indicative conditionals / Angelika Kratzer -- New paradigm psychology of conditional reasoning and its philosophical sources / David Over -- Counterfactuals to the rescue / Cleo Condoravdi -- Counterfactuals and probability / Robert Stalnaker -- Grammar matters / Sabine Iatridou -- Constructing the impossible / Kit Fine -- The epistemic use of 'ought' / John Hawthorne -- Undercutting defeat and Edgington's burglar / Scott Sturgeon -- Edgington on possible knowledge of unknown truth / Timothy Williamson -- Prefaces, sorites, and guides to reasoning / Rosanna Keefe -- Hysteresis hypotheses / Alan Hájek -- Verities and truth-values / Nicholas K. Jones.
edited by Lee Walters and John Hawthorne.
This edition previously issued in print: 2020.