Knowledge and Conditionals: Essays on the Structure of Inquiry
Author:   Robert C. Stalnaker (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198810346


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   03 July 2019
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Author:   Robert C. Stalnaker (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.564kg
ISBN:  

9780198810346


ISBN 10:   0198810342
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   03 July 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Part I: Knowledge 1: On the logics of knowledge and belief 2: Luminosity and the KK principle 3: Iterated belief revision 4: Modeling a perspective on the world 5: Reflection, Endorsement, Calibration 6: Rational reflection and the notorious unmarked clock 7: Expressivism and propositions 8: Contextualism and the logic of knowledge Part II: Conditionals 9: A theory of conditionals 10: Conditional assertions and conditional propositions 11: Counterfactuals and probability 12: Dispositions and chance

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Robert Stalnaker received his PhD in philosophy at Princeton University in 1965, and subsequently taught philosophy over the next fifty years at Yale University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cornell University, and MIT. He is the author of four books: Inquiry (MIT Press 1984), Our Knowledge of the Internal World (Oxford 2007), Mere Possibilities (Princeton 2012), and Context (Oxford 2015), as well as two previous collections of papers: Context and Content (Oxford 1999) and Ways a World Might Be (Oxford 2003). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.

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