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Subject: Philosophy  Book Title: A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals
A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals
Bennett, Jonathan , formerly Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University
Print publication date: 2003
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925887-1
doi:10.1093/0199258872.001.0001
 
Abstract: Conditionals are of two basic kinds, often called ‘indicative’ and ‘subjunctive’. This book expounds and evaluates the main literature about each kind. It eventually defends the view of Adams and Edgington that indicatives are devices for expressing subjective probabilities, and the view of Stalnaker and Lewis that subjunctives are statements about close possible worlds. But it also discusses other views, e.g. that indicatives are really material conditionals, and Goodman's approach to subjunctives.

Keywords: Adams, conditionals, Edgington, Goodman, indicative conditionals, Lewis, material conditionals, metaphysics, philosophy of language, possible worlds, probability, Stalnaker, subjunctive
Table of Contents
Preface
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1. Introduction
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2. The Material Conditional: Grice
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3. The Material Conditional: Jackson
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4. The Equation
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5. The Equation Attacked
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6. The Subjectivity of Indicative Conditionals
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7. Indicative Conditionals Lack Truth Values
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8. Uses of Indicative Conditionals
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9. The Logic of Indicative Conditionals
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10. Subjunctive Conditionals—First Steps
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11. The Competition for ‘Closest’
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12. Unrolling from the Antecedent Time
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13. Forks
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14. Reflections on Legality
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15. Truth at the Actual World
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16. Subjunctive Conditionals and Probability
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17. ‘Even if . . . ’
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18. Backward Subjunctive Conditionals
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19. Subjunctive Conditionals and Time's Arrow
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20. Support Theories
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21. The Need for Worlds
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22. Relating the Two Kinds of Conditional
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23. Unifying the Two Kinds of Conditional
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Bibliography
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Index
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doi:10.1093/0199258872.001.0001
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