The Meaning of If
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-009670-0 (ISBN)
According to Khoo's theory, conditionals form a unified class of expressions which share a common semantic core that encodes inferential dispositions. Thus, rather than represent the world, conditionals are devices used to communicate how we are disposed to infer. Khoo shows that this theory can be extended to predict the probabilities of conditionals, as well as how different kinds of conditionals differ both semantically and pragmatically.
Khoo's book will make for a significant contribution to the literature on conditionals and should be of interest to philosophers, linguists, and computer scientists.
Justin Khoo is Associate Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He received his BA in philosophy from UC-Davis in 2006 and his PhD in philosophy from Yale in 2013. His research and teaching are focused primarily on philosophy of language, philosophical logic, meta-ethics, and metaphysics. His work has appeared in various journals, including Journal of Semantics, Mind, Noûs, and Philosophers' Imprint, among others. He co-edited (with Rachel Katharine Sterken) the Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language (2021).
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Framework
Chapter 1: Bounding Puzzles
Chapter 2: Situating the Puzzles in the Literature
Chapter 3: Domain Inferentialism
Chapter 4: Sequence Semantics
Part II: Probabilities
Chapter 5: Probabilities of Conditionals
Chapter 6: Partition Dependence
Part III: Subjunctive vs. Indicative
Chapter 7: Subjunctive Conditionals: The Role of Tense
Chapter 8: Temporal Past
Chapter 9: Sufficiency Networks
Chapter 10: Subjunctive Probabilities
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.05.2022 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 216 x 145 mm |
Gewicht | 522 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-009670-5 / 0190096705 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-009670-0 / 9780190096700 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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