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

by Lee Walters (Editor), John Hawthorne (Editor)

Overview

Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability brings together fifteen original essays by experts in philosophy and linguistics. These specially written chapters draw on themes from the work of Dorothy Edgington, the first woman to hold a chair in philosophy at the University of Oxford. The contributors to this volume focus on the key topics to which Edgington has made many important contributions, including conditionals, vagueness, the paradox of knowability, and probability. Their insights will be of interest to philosophers, linguists, and psychologists working in philosophical logic, natural language semantics, and reasoning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198712732
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/11/2021
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Lee Walters, Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Southampton, John Hawthorne, Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California

Lee Walters is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Southampton and Associate Editor of Analysis. He works mainly in the philosophy of logic and language, metaphysics, and related issues in aesthetics, in particular on the logic and semantics of conditionals, the metaphysics of art, and fiction. In 2016-7 he held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship on the Metaphysics of Art, and in 2015 he was a Junior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University.

John Hawthorne is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He was previously Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. His books include Knowledge and Lotteries (Oxford 2004), Metaphysical Essays (Oxford 2006), Relativism and Monadic Truth (Oxford 2009, with Herman Cappelen), The Reference Book (Oxford 2012, with David Manley), and Narrow Content (Oxford 2018, with Juhani Yli-Vakkuri).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Lee Walters2. Philosophy and Me, Dorothy Edgington3. A Note on Conditionals and Restrictors, Daniel Rothschild4. Chasing Hook: Quantified Indicative Conditionals, Angelika Kratzer5. New Paradigm Psychology of Conditional Reasoning and its Philosophical Sources, David Over6. Counterfactuals to the Rescue, Cleo Condoravdi7. Counterfactuals and Probability, Robert Stalnaker8. Grammar Matters, Sabine Iatridou9. Constructing the Impossible, Kit Fine10. The Epistemic Use of 'Ought', John Hawthorne11. Undercutting Defeat and Edgington's Burglar, Scott Sturgeon12. Edgington on Possible Knowledge of Unknown Truth, Timothy Williamson13. Prefaces, Sorites and Guides to Reasoning, Rosanna Keefe14. Hysteresis Hypotheses, Alan Hajek15. Verities and Truth-values, Nick JonesBibliography of Edgington's Work