If P, Then Q

Conditionals and the Foundations of Reasoning

David Sanford (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

292 Seiten

2002 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-28368-7 (ISBN)

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Since its publication in 1989, David Sanford's If P Then Q has become one of the most widely respected works in the field of conditionals. This new edition includes three new chapters, thus updating the book to take into account developments in the

David Sanford is Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, North Carolina, USA.

Introduction Conditionals in Everyday Life and in Philosophy; I: The History of Philosophical Treatments of Conditionals; I: Ancient History; II: Medieval and Post-medieval History; III: Rediscovery of the Material Conditional; IV: Rediscovery of the Strict Conditional; V: Subjunctive Conditionals and Covering Laws; VI: Belief and Probability; VII: Possible Worlds; II: A New Treatment of Conditionals; VIII: Inference, Entailment, and the Purposes of Theories; IX: Problems with the Ramsey Test, Possible Worlds, and Probability; X: Various Visions of Possible Worlds; XI: Laws and Conditions; XII: Counterfactual Dependence and Backtracking; XIII: Patterns of Dependence; XIV: Objective Dependence; XV: A Problem with Validity

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.12.2002
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	700 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	0-415-28368-X / 041528368X
ISBN-13	978-0-415-28368-7 / 9780415283687
Zustand	Neuware