Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability: Themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington

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by  Lee Walters and John Hawthorne

Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability

Conditionals,
Paradox, and
Probability
Themes from the Philosophy
of Dorothy Edgington
 
Lee Walters and
John Hawthorne
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Contents
ListofTables vii
ListofContributors ix
. Introduction 
LeeWalters
. PhilosophyandMe 
DorothyEdgington
. ANoteonConditionalsandRestrictors 
DanielRothschild
. ChasingHook:QuantifiedIndicativeConditionals 
AngelikaKratzer
. NewParadigmPsychologyofConditionalReasoningandIts
PhilosophicalSources 
DavidOver
. CounterfactualstotheRescue 
CleoCondoravdi
. CounterfactualsandProbability 
RobertStalnaker
. GrammarMatters 
SabineIatridou
. ConstructingtheImpossible 
KitFine
. TheEpistemicUseof‘Ought’ 
JohnHawthorne
. UndercuttingDefeatandEdgington’sBurglar 
ScottSturgeon
. EdgingtononPossibleKnowledgeofUnknownTruth 
TimothyWilliamson
. Prefaces,Sorites,andGuidestoReasoning 
RosannaKeefe
. HysteresisHypotheses 
AlanHájek
. VeritiesandTruth-values 
NicholasK.Jones
BibliographyofworksbyDorothyEdgington 
IndexofNames 
IndexofTopics 

List of Tables
.. The‘defective’,(cid:1)deFinettitableforifpthenq 
.. The(cid:1)generaldeFinettitableforifpthenq 
.. TheJeffreytableforifpthenq 

List of Contributors
CCisProfessorofLinguisticsatStanfordUniversity.
DEisWaynfleteProfessorofMetaphysicalPhilosophyEmeritus
attheUniversityofOxford.
KFisUniversityProfessorandSilverProfessorofPhilosophyandMathematics
at New York University, and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of
Birmingham.
AH´isProfessorofPhilosophyattheAustralianNationalUniversity.
J H is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern
California.
S I is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
NK.JisOfficialFellowofStJohn’sCollegeandAssociateProfessorof
PhilosophyattheUniversityofOxford.
RKisProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofSheffield.
A K is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of
MassachusettsAmherst.
DOisEmeritusProfessorofPsychologyatDurhamUniversity.
DRisProfessorofPhilosophyatUniversityCollegeLondon.
R S is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Massachusetts
InstituteofTechnology.
SSisProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofBirmingham.
LWisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofSouthampton.
TWisWykehamProfessorofLogicattheUniversityofOxford.