It has recently been argued that indeterminacy and indeterminism make most ordinary counterfactuals false. I argue that a plausible way to avoid such counterfactual skepticism is to postulate the existence of primitive modal facts that serve as truth-makers for counterfactual claims. Moreover, I defend a new theory of ‘might’ counterfactuals, and develop assertability and knowledge criteria to suit such unobservable ‘counterfacts’
Williamson has argued against scepticism concerning our metaphysically modal knowledge, by arguing t...
Ordinarily counterfactuals are seen as making statements about states of affairs, a...
In this paper, we develop a novel response to counterfactual scepticism, the thesis that most ordina...
It has recently been argued that indeterminacy and indeterminism make most ordinary counterfactuals ...
Counterfactual skepticism says that most ordinary counterfactuals are false. While few endorse count...
Philosophers typically rely on intuitions when providing a semantics for counterfactual conditionals...
Counterfactual scepticism holds that most ordinary counterfactuals are false. The main argument for ...
This paper axiomatizes higher-order counterfactual logic, proves the equivalence of various of its f...
‘If I were to toss a coin 1000 times, then it would land heads exactly n times’. Is there a specifi...
Counterpossibles are counterfactuals with necessarily false antecedents. The problem of counterpossi...
The paper compares the suitability of two different epistemologies of counterfactuals—(EC) and (W)—t...
Since our capacities and methods of cognizing reality merely seem to tell us how things are but only...
Williamson has argued against scepticism concerning our metaphysically modal knowledge, by arguing t...
Ordinarily counterfactuals are seen as making statements about states of affairs, a...
In this paper, we develop a novel response to counterfactual scepticism, the thesis that most ordina...
It has recently been argued that indeterminacy and indeterminism make most ordinary counterfactuals ...
Counterfactual skepticism says that most ordinary counterfactuals are false. While few endorse count...
Philosophers typically rely on intuitions when providing a semantics for counterfactual conditionals...
Counterfactual scepticism holds that most ordinary counterfactuals are false. The main argument for ...
This paper axiomatizes higher-order counterfactual logic, proves the equivalence of various of its f...
‘If I were to toss a coin 1000 times, then it would land heads exactly n times’. Is there a specifi...
Counterpossibles are counterfactuals with necessarily false antecedents. The problem of counterpossi...
The paper compares the suitability of two different epistemologies of counterfactuals—(EC) and (W)—t...
Since our capacities and methods of cognizing reality merely seem to tell us how things are but only...
Williamson has argued against scepticism concerning our metaphysically modal knowledge, by arguing t...
Ordinarily counterfactuals are seen as making statements about states of affairs, a...
In this paper, we develop a novel response to counterfactual scepticism, the thesis that most ordina...