- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Material Conditional: Grice
- 3 The Material Conditional: Jackson
- 4 The Equation
- 5 The Equation Attacked
- 6 The Subjectivity of Indicative Conditionals
- 7 Indicative Conditionals Lack Truth Values
- 8 Uses of Indicative Conditionals
- 9 The Logic of Indicative Conditionals
- 10 Subjunctive Conditionals—First Steps
- 11 The Competition for ‘Closest’
- 12 Unrolling from the Antecedent Time
- 13 Forks
- 14 Reflections on Legality
- 15 Truth at the Actual World
- 16 Subjunctive Conditionals and Probability
- 17 ‘Even if . . . ’
- 18 Backward Subjunctive Conditionals
- 19 Subjunctive Conditionals and Time's Arrow
- 20 Support Theories
- 21 The Need for Worlds
- 22 Relating the Two Kinds of Conditional
- 23 Unifying the Two Kinds of Conditional
- References
- Index of Persons
- Index of Topics
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.1) 1 Introduction
- Source:
- A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals
- Author(s):
Jonathan Bennett
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Gives an inconclusive discussion of how to define ‘conditional’. Conditionals fall into two groups (here reluctantly labelled ‘indicative’ and ‘subjunctive’), though there is dispute over just where the line falls (relocation thesis). ‘Independent’ conditionals, in which the relation between antecedent and consequent does not depend on any unstated matter of particular fact, are identified and set aside as uninteresting.
Keywords: antecedent, conditionals, consequent, indicative conditionals, relocation, subjunctive conditionals
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Material Conditional: Grice
- 3 The Material Conditional: Jackson
- 4 The Equation
- 5 The Equation Attacked
- 6 The Subjectivity of Indicative Conditionals
- 7 Indicative Conditionals Lack Truth Values
- 8 Uses of Indicative Conditionals
- 9 The Logic of Indicative Conditionals
- 10 Subjunctive Conditionals—First Steps
- 11 The Competition for ‘Closest’
- 12 Unrolling from the Antecedent Time
- 13 Forks
- 14 Reflections on Legality
- 15 Truth at the Actual World
- 16 Subjunctive Conditionals and Probability
- 17 ‘Even if . . . ’
- 18 Backward Subjunctive Conditionals
- 19 Subjunctive Conditionals and Time's Arrow
- 20 Support Theories
- 21 The Need for Worlds
- 22 Relating the Two Kinds of Conditional
- 23 Unifying the Two Kinds of Conditional
- References
- Index of Persons
- Index of Topics