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Description: A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals by Jonathan Bennett Conditional sentences are among the most intriguing and puzzling features of language, and analysis of their meaning and function has important implications for, and uses in, many areas of philosophy. Jonathan Bennett has produced an introduction to the subject. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Conditional sentences are among the most intriguing and puzzling features of language: analysis of their meaning and function has important implications for, and uses in, many areas of philosophy. Jonathan Bennett, one of the worlds leading experts, distils many years work and teaching into this Philosophical Guide to Conditionals, the fullest and most authoritative treatment of the subject. The literature on conditionals is difficult - needlessly so.Bennetts treatment is meticulously careful and luminously clear. He presents and evaluates in detail various approaches to the understanding of indicative conditionals (like If Shakespeare didnt writeHamlet, some aristocrat did) and subjunctive conditionals (like If rabbits had not been deliberately introduced into New Zealand, there would be none there today); and he offers his own view, which will be recognized as a major original contribution to the subject.Journeying through this intellectual territory brings one into contact with the metaphysics of possible worlds, probability and belief-change, probability and logic, the pragmatics of conversation,determinism, ambiguity, vagueness, the law of excluded middle, facts versus events, and more. One might perhaps learn more philosophy from a thorough study of conditionals than from any other kind of work.Bennetts Guide is an ideal introduction for undergraduates with a philosophical grounding, and will also be a rich source of illumination and stimulation for graduate students and professional philosophers. Author Biography Jonathan Bennett, who now lives on an island near Vancouver, British Columbia, was formerly Lecturer in Moral Science at the University of Cambridge, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and then at Syracuse University. He has held visiting positions at Cornell, Michigan, Pittsburgh, and Princeton, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He isFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy. Table of Contents 1: Introduction2: The Material Condition: Grice3: The Material Condition: Jackson4: The Equation5: The Equation Attacked6: The Subjectivity of Indicative Conditionals7: Indicative Conditionals Lack Truth Values8: Uses of Indicative Conditionals9: The Logic of Indicative Conditionals10: Subjunctive Conditionals - First Steps11: The Competition for Closest12: Unrolling from the Antecedent Time13: Forks14: Reflections on Legality15: Truth at the Actual World16: Subjunctive Conditionals and Probability17: Even If...18: Backward Subjunctive Conditionals19: Subjunctive Conditionals and Times Arrow20: Support Theories21: The Need for Worlds22: Relating the Two Kinds of Conditional23: Unifying the Two Kinds of ConditionalReferencesIndex of PersonsIndex of Topics Review `He provides a useful, digestible and often entertaining discussion of many different debates.The Philosophical Quarterly Long Description Conditional sentences are among the most intriguing and puzzling features of language: analysis of their meaning and function has important implications for, and uses in, many areas of philosophy. Jonathan Bennett, one of the worlds leading experts, distils many years work and teaching into this Philosophical Guide to Conditionals, the fullest and most authoritative treatment of the subject. The literature on conditionals is difficult - needlessly so.Bennetts treatment is meticulously careful and luminously clear. He presents and evaluates in detail various approaches to the understanding of indicative conditionals (like If Shakespeare didnt write Hamlet, some aristocrat did) and subjunctive conditionals (like If rabbits had not been deliberatelyintroduced into New Zealand, there would be none there today); and he offers his own view, which will be recognized as a major original contribution to the subject.Journeying through this intellectual territory brings one into contact with the metaphysics of possible worlds, probability and belief-change, probability and logic, the pragmatics of conversation, determinism, ambiguity, vagueness, the law of excluded middle, facts versus events, and more. One might perhapslearn more philosophy from a thorough study of conditionals than from any other kind of work. Bennetts Guide is an ideal introduction for undergraduates with a philosophical grounding, and will also be a rich source of illumination and stimulation for graduate students and professionalphilosophers. Review Text `He provides a useful, digestible and often entertaining discussion of many different debates.The Philosophical Quarterly Review Quote "The hulking literature on the logic and semantics of conditionals is cunning and daunting, and few thinkers on the world stage are equipped to coral and tame the beast as Bennet has... His writing is disarmingly casual and witty-quite remarkably so for such dense subject matter... Bennets achievement is nothing less than monumental." --The Review of Metaphysics Feature Complete, masterly treatment of conditionalsBennett is famous worldwide for his work on this subjectBrilliantly clear and lucid approachSuitable for undergraduate and graduate coursesOf interest to anyone working in the central areas of philosophy Details ISBN0199258872 Author Jonathan Bennett Language English ISBN-10 0199258872 ISBN-13 9780199258871 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2003 Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1939 Residence NY, US Illustrations black & white illustrations Short Title PHILOSOPHICAL GT CONDITIONALS Affiliation Attending Physician, Carolinas Hospital System DOI 10.1604/9780199258871 UK Release Date 2003-04-03 AU Release Date 2003-04-03 NZ Release Date 2003-04-03 Edited by Eric S. Weinstein Death 1924 Position Attending Physician Qualifications MD Pages 404 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2003-04-03 DEWEY 121.68 Audience Professional & Vocational Imprint Oxford University Press We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:53301221;

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