The Epistemology of Indicative Conditionals

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-107-11145-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

Conditionals are sentences of the form 'If A, then B', and they play a central role in scientific, logical, and everyday reasoning. They have been in the philosophical limelight for centuries, and more recently, they have been receiving attention from psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists. In spite of this, many key questions concerning conditionals remain unanswered. While most of the work on conditionals has addressed semantical questions – questions about the truth conditions of conditionals – this book focuses on the main epistemological questions that conditionals give rise to, such as: what are the probabilities of conditionals? When is a conditional acceptable or assertable? What do we learn when we receive new conditional information? In answering these questions, this book combines the formal tools of logic and probability theory with the experimental approach of cognitive psychology. It will be of interest to students and researchers in logic, epistemology, and psychology of reasoning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Douven, Igor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Agenda; 2. Semantics; 3. Probability; 4. Acceptability; 5. Closure; 6. Updating; 7. Progress?

Über Autor(innen)

Douven, Igor
Igor Douven is Directeur de Recherche at Sciences, normes, décision, Université Paris-Sorbonne.