This collection of readings introduces the reader to the most interesting current work on conditionals. Particular attention is paid to possible worlds semantics for conditionals; the role of conditional probability in helping us to understand conditionals; implicature and the material conditional; and subjective versus indicative conditionals. The volume brings together important papers by Frank Jackson, V. H. Dudman, Dorothy Edgington, Nelson Goodman, H. P. Grice, David Lewis, and Robert Stalnaker . Oxford Readings in Philosophy is a series designed to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader. The editor of each volume contributes an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading. This book is intended for students of the philosophy of language, logic, and metaphysics; students of linguistics with an interest in philosophy of language.
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`Jackson has most usefully collected in a single volume the most outstanding papers on the theory of conditionals in modern philosophy.' Dr Paul Tomassi, University of Edinburgh
`can be recommended to seasoned philosophers who are interested in the most up-to-date thought on this perplexing topic' The Heythrop Journal
`can be recommended to seasoned philosophers who are interested in the most up-to-date thought on this perplexing topic' The Heythrop Journal
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Frank Jackson, Professor of Philosophy, Monash University, Melbourne.
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