
Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability
Themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington
Oxford University Press
Published on 11. February 2021
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-19-871273-2 (ISBN)
Description
Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability brings together fifteen original essays by experts in philosophy and linguistics. These specially written chapters draw on themes from the work of Dorothy Edgington, the first woman to hold a chair in philosophy at the University of Oxford. The contributors to this volume focus on the key topics to which Edgington has made many important contributions, including conditionals, vagueness, the paradox of knowability, and probability. Their insights will be of interest to philosophers, linguists, and psychologists working in philosophical logic, natural language semantics, and reasoning.
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
587 gr
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978-0-19-871273-2 (9780198712732)
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Themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington
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Lee Walters is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Southampton and Associate Editor of Analysis. He works mainly in the philosophy of logic and language, metaphysics, and related issues in aesthetics, in particular on the logic and semantics of conditionals, the metaphysics of art, and fiction. In 2016-7 he held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship on the Metaphysics of Art, and in 2015 he was a Junior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University.
John Hawthorne is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He was previously Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. His books include Knowledge and Lotteries (Oxford 2004), Metaphysical Essays (Oxford 2006), Relativism and Monadic Truth (Oxford 2009, with Herman Cappelen), The Reference Book (Oxford 2012, with David Manley), and Narrow Content (Oxford 2018, with Juhani Yli-Vakkuri).
John Hawthorne is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He was previously Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. His books include Knowledge and Lotteries (Oxford 2004), Metaphysical Essays (Oxford 2006), Relativism and Monadic Truth (Oxford 2009, with Herman Cappelen), The Reference Book (Oxford 2012, with David Manley), and Narrow Content (Oxford 2018, with Juhani Yli-Vakkuri).
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Associate Professor in PhilosophyAssociate Professor in Philosophy, University of Southampton
Professor of PhilosophyProfessor of Philosophy, University of Southern California
Content
1: Lee Walters: Introduction
2: Dorothy Edgington: Philosophy and Me
3: Daniel Rothschild: A Note on Conditionals and Restrictors
4: Angelika Kratzer: Chasing Hook: Quantified Indicative Conditionals
5: David Over: New Paradigm Psychology of Conditional Reasoning and its Philosophical Sources
6: Cleo Condoravdi: Counterfactuals to the Rescue
7: Robert Stalnaker: Counterfactuals and Probability
8: Sabine Iatridou: Grammar Matters
9: Kit Fine: Constructing the Impossible
10: John Hawthorne: The Epistemic Use of 'Ought'
11: Scott Sturgeon: Undercutting Defeat and Edgington's Burglar
12: Timothy Williamson: Edgington on Possible Knowledge of Unknown Truth
13: Rosanna Keefe: Prefaces, Sorites and Guides to Reasoning
14: Alan Hajek: Hysteresis Hypotheses
15: Nick Jones: Verities and Truth-values
Bibliography of Edgington's Work
2: Dorothy Edgington: Philosophy and Me
3: Daniel Rothschild: A Note on Conditionals and Restrictors
4: Angelika Kratzer: Chasing Hook: Quantified Indicative Conditionals
5: David Over: New Paradigm Psychology of Conditional Reasoning and its Philosophical Sources
6: Cleo Condoravdi: Counterfactuals to the Rescue
7: Robert Stalnaker: Counterfactuals and Probability
8: Sabine Iatridou: Grammar Matters
9: Kit Fine: Constructing the Impossible
10: John Hawthorne: The Epistemic Use of 'Ought'
11: Scott Sturgeon: Undercutting Defeat and Edgington's Burglar
12: Timothy Williamson: Edgington on Possible Knowledge of Unknown Truth
13: Rosanna Keefe: Prefaces, Sorites and Guides to Reasoning
14: Alan Hajek: Hysteresis Hypotheses
15: Nick Jones: Verities and Truth-values
Bibliography of Edgington's Work