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A counterpossible conditional is a counterfactual with an impossible antecedent. Common sense delivers the view that some such conditionals are true, and some are false. In recent publications, Timothy Williamson has defended the view that all are true. In this paper we defend the common sense view against Williamson's objections
This article explores the connection between two theses: the principle of conditional excluded middl...
In a series of articles, David Barnett (2006, 2009, 2010) has developed a general theory of conditio...
If whales were fish, their behaviour would differ from what it actually is. If whales were fish, the...
A counterpossible conditional is a counterfactual with an impossible antecedent. Common sense delive...
A counterpossible conditional is a counterfactual with an impossible antecedent. Common sense delive...
A counterpossible conditional is a counterfactual with an impossible antecedent. Common sense delive...
Counterpossibles are counterfactuals with necessarily false antecedents. The problem of counterpossi...
Since the publication of David Lewis' Counterfactuals, the standard line on subjunctive conditionals...
such questions are futile, because all counterpossibles (counterfactual conditionals with impossible...
In Counterfactual Conditionals, Daniel Dohrn discusses the standard account of counterfactuals, cond...
This paper defends the thesis that counterfactuals are strict conditionals. Its purpose is to show t...
Probabilities figure centrally in much of the literature on the semantics of conditionals. I find th...
I criticize Timothy Williamson's characterization of thought experiments on which the central judgme...
Williamson has argued against scepticism concerning our metaphysically modal knowledge, by arguing t...
This article explores the connection between two theses: the principle of conditional excluded middl...
In a series of articles, David Barnett (2006, 2009, 2010) has developed a general theory of conditio...
If whales were fish, their behaviour would differ from what it actually is. If whales were fish, the...
A counterpossible conditional is a counterfactual with an impossible antecedent. Common sense delive...
A counterpossible conditional is a counterfactual with an impossible antecedent. Common sense delive...
A counterpossible conditional is a counterfactual with an impossible antecedent. Common sense delive...
Counterpossibles are counterfactuals with necessarily false antecedents. The problem of counterpossi...
Since the publication of David Lewis' Counterfactuals, the standard line on subjunctive conditionals...
such questions are futile, because all counterpossibles (counterfactual conditionals with impossible...
In Counterfactual Conditionals, Daniel Dohrn discusses the standard account of counterfactuals, cond...
This paper defends the thesis that counterfactuals are strict conditionals. Its purpose is to show t...
Probabilities figure centrally in much of the literature on the semantics of conditionals. I find th...
I criticize Timothy Williamson's characterization of thought experiments on which the central judgme...
Williamson has argued against scepticism concerning our metaphysically modal knowledge, by arguing t...
This article explores the connection between two theses: the principle of conditional excluded middl...
In a series of articles, David Barnett (2006, 2009, 2010) has developed a general theory of conditio...
If whales were fish, their behaviour would differ from what it actually is. If whales were fish, the...
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