Subjunctive Reasoning

Subjunctive Reasoning

by Pollock, John L.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Subjunctive Reasoning / by John L. Pollock.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1976.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Springer Netherlands
  • Place of Publication:Dordrecht
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1976.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789401015004, 9401015007
  • oclc:ocn851378703
  • LC Classification:B790-5802
  • Dewey Decimal:190

Table of Contents

I. Introduction -- 1. Subjunctive Reasoning -- 2. The Linguistic Approach -- 3. The 'Possible Worlds' Approach -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- II. Four Kinds of Conditionals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Four Kinds -- 3. 'Even if' Subjunctives -- 4. 'Might Be' Conditionals -- 5. Necessitation Conditionals -- 6. Simple Subjunctives -- 7. The Axiomatization of Simple Subjunctives -- 8. Conclusions 44 -- Notes -- III. Subjunctive Generalizations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rudiments of an Analysis -- 3. Strong Generalizations -- 4. Weak Generalizations -- 5. Conclusions -- Notes -- IV. The Basic Analysis of Subjunctive Conditionals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Analysis of M -- 3. Simple Propositions -- 4. Counter-Legal Conditionals -- 5. Subject Preference -- Notes -- V. Quantification, Modalities, and Conditionals -- 1. Referential Opacity -- 2. Transworld Identity -- 3. Kripke's Observation -- 4. Quantified Modal Logic -- 5. Conditionals -- Notes -- VI. The Full Theory -- 1. Syntax -- 2. Semantics -- 3. Infinitary Operators -- 4. The Introduction of Sets -- 5. Some Consequences of the Analysis -- Note -- VII. Causes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Ontology of Causes -- 3. Some Causal Relati…

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Subjects

Philosophy (General) Philosophy, Modern

Writers

Pollock, John L.

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