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







doi:10.1093/0199258872.003.0015

Jonathan Bennett
Abstract: Discussion of a range of problems about subjunctive ‘If P, Q’ in cases when P is actually true and in cases when Q is actually true. The particular-fact problem concerning subjunctives about indeterministic events (‘If you had bet heads, you would have won’); its solution, involving notion of ‘same causal chain’. Independent subjunctives are identified and snubbed.

Keywords: conditionals, independent subjunctives, indeterminism, subjunctive conditionals,

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