Bennett, Jonathan formerly Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University
Print publication date: 2003 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925887-1
doi:10.1093/0199258872.003.0006
 

Jonathan Bennett
Discussion of reasons for approaching indicative conditionals in terms of subjective rather than objective probability. The reasons include stand-offs of the sort Gibbard has presented: cases where two right-thinking people with partial information accept conflicting conditionals. Discussion and rejection of the view that subjectivity comes in because in asserting an indicative conditional one says that one has such and such a probability for the consequent given the antecedent. What remains, and seems to be right, is the view that in asserting such a conditional one is expressing a conditional probability without asserting anything.
Keywords: conditionals, Gibbard, indicative conditionals, objective probability, subjective probability
doi:10.1093/0199258872.003.0006
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