Author: Jonathan Bennett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: conditionals, guide, philosophical
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2003-06-19
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0199258872
ISBN-13: 9780199258871

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, one of the world’s leading experts, distils many years’ work and teaching into this Philosophical Guide to Conditionals, the fullest and most authoritative treatment of the subject. An ideal introduction for undergraduates with a philosophical grounding, it also offers a rich source of illumination and stimulation for graduate students and professional philosophers.

Author: Nicholas Rescher
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: books, bradford, conditionals
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0262182599
ISBN-13: 9780262182591

This book by distinguished philosopher Nicholas Rescher seeks to clarify the idea of what a conditional says by elucidating the information that is normally transmitted by its utterance. The result is a unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades. This approach, argues Rescher, makes it easier to understand how conditionals actually function in our thought and discourse. In its concern with what language theorists call pragmatics—the study of the norms and principles governing our use of language in

Authors:Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Alice Ter Meulen, Judy Sni
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: conditionals
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-06-18
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 052111327X
ISBN-13: 9780521113274

On Conditionals provides the first major cross-disciplinary account of conditional (if-then) constructions. Conditional sentences directly reflect the language user’s ability to reason about alternatives, uncertainties, and unrealised contingencies. An understanding of the conceptual and behavioural organisation involved in the construction and interpretation of these kinds of sentences therefore provides fundamental insights into the inferential strategies and the cognitive and linguistic processes of human beings. The present volume brings together studies from several perspectives - p

Author: Tracy Smith
Publisher: VDM Verlag
Keywords: metaphysics, consequences, thomas, aquinas, conditionals, modal, dialectic, thirteenth, century
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009-07-02
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 3639175298
ISBN-13: 9783639175295

Among medieval studies, one of the areas of debate is whether consequences arose from dialectic or from Prior Analytic commentaries and the place of metaphysics in this development. The following work investigates this development using modal conditional semantics and consequences. The work suggests conditional syllogistics led to the rise of consequences from both dialectic and developments in conditional expressions. Due to Aquinas¿ emphasis upon metaphysics and his use of conditional expressions, Aquinas is an exceptional source for a scientific investigation. The following work

Authors:Ellery Eells, Brian Skyrms,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: probability, decision, studies, induction, theory, cambridge, rational, conditionals, belief, revision
Number of Pages: 217
Published: 1994-11-25
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0521453593
ISBN-13: 9780521453592

This is a collection of essays on the relation between probabilities--especially conditional probabilities--and conditionals. It provides new negative results that sharply limit the ways conditionals can be related to conditional probabilities. There are also positive ideas and results that will open up new areas of research. The collection is intended to honor Ernest W. Adams, whose seminal work is largely responsible for creating this area of inquiry. As well as describing, evaluating, and applying Adams’s work, the contributions extend his ideas in directions he may not have antici

Authors:Renaat Declerck, Susan Reed,
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Keywords: english, linguistics, topics, analysis, comprehensive, empirical, conditionals
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2001-12
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 3110171449
ISBN-13: 9783110171440

This book is an extremely detailed and comprehensive examination of conditional sentences in English, using many examples from actual language-use. The syntax and semantics of conditionals (including tense and mood options) and the functions of conditionals in discourse are examined in depth, producing an all-round linguistic view of the subject which contains a wealth of original observations and analyses. Not only linguists specializing in grammar but also those interested in pragmatics and the philo-sophy of language will find this book a reward-ing and illuminating source. Renaat Decler