The Epistemology of Indicative Conditionals: Formal and Empirical ApproachesConditionals are sentences of the form 'If A, then B', and they play a central role in scientific, logical, and everyday reasoning. They have been in the philosophical limelight for centuries, and more recently, they have been receiving attention from psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists. In spite of this, many key questions concerning conditionals remain unanswered. While most of the work on conditionals has addressed semantical questions - questions about the truth conditions of conditionals - this book focuses on the main epistemological questions that conditionals give rise to, such as: what are the probabilities of conditionals? When is a conditional acceptable or assertable? What do we learn when we receive new conditional information? In answering these questions, this book combines the formal tools of logic and probability theory with the experimental approach of cognitive psychology. It will be of interest to students and researchers in logic, epistemology, and psychology of reasoning. |
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abductive inference acceptability conditions according Ann’s antecedent and consequent argued assertion assign assumption Bayesian chapter claim closest conditional probability conditionalization conditions of conditionals conjunction consider context corresponding conditional probability counterexample degree of belief degree of validity degrees-of-belief functions ditional Douven and Verbrugge empirical epistemic epistemology evidence example experiment experimental explain explanatory fact false Fraassen’s Gibbard Gricean Hájek hold implicature indicative conditionals inference instance interpretation intuitions invalid least lottery material conditional account Modus Ponens Modus Tollens notion one’s Or-to-if p-models participants people’s person’s philosophers possible worlds account Pr(If Pr(p Pr(X Preface Paradoxes premises pretheoretically probabilistic probabilities of conditionals probability functions probability models probability theory proposal question rational reason schema semantics of conditionals sentences simple conditionals Stalnaker Stalnaker’s subjunctive conditionals suppose thesis tion tional triviality arguments true truth conditions truth table truth-conditional semantics updating on conditionals
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| Title | The Epistemology of Indicative Conditionals: Formal and Empirical Approaches The Epistemology of Indicative Conditionals: Formal and Empirical Approaches, Igor Douven |
| Author | Igor Douven |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1107111455, 9781107111455 |
| Length | 220 pages |
| Subjects | › › Computers / Computer Science Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General Philosophy / Epistemology Philosophy / General Philosophy / Logic Philosophy / Metaphysics Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition Psychology / General Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects |
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