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Conditionals
- Title
- Conditionals / Michael Woods ; edited by David Wiggins ; with a commentary by Dorothy Edgington.
- Author
- Woods, Michael, 1934-1993
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- ©1997
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BC199.C56 W66 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 152 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Conditionals has at its centre an extended essay on this problematic and much-debated subject in the philosophy of language and logic, which the widely respected Oxford philosopher Michael Woods had been preparing for publication at the time of his death in 1993. Woods discusses the distinctions between different kinds of conditionals, and then goes on to cover a range of topics, including assertibility, conditional probability, possible-worlds theories, and conditional commands and questions. He ends by sketching a new theory of counterfactual conditionals. This essay is edited for publication by Woods's friend and colleague David Wiggins, and accompanied by a commentary specially written by a leading expert on the topic Dorothy Edgington.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-142) and index.
- "Michael Woods's published writings": p. 147-148.
- Contents
- The Varieties of Conditional -- Theories of Simple Conditionals -- Ramsey's Test and Adam's Hypothesis -- Simple Conditionals and Truth-Values: Some Proposals -- Conditionals and Possible Worlds -- Compound Conditionals and Truth-Values -- A Theory of Simple Conditionals -- Sketch of a Theory of Counterfactual Conditionals.
- ISBN
- 0198751265
- 9780198751267
- LCCN
- 97007804
- OCLC
- ocm36528282
- 36528282
- SCSB-9575517
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library