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Author:   Donald Nute
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1980 ed.
Volume:   20
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.960kg
ISBN:  

9789027710499

ISBN 10:   902771049
Pages:   165
Publication Date:   29 February 1980
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. The Basic Analysis of Conditionals.- 1.1. Conditionals and Formalization.- 1.2. Hypothetical Deliberation.- 1.3. Some Intuitively Valid Inference Patterns.- 1.4. Formal Semantics for Hypothetical Deliberation.- 1.5. The Weak Conditional Logic W.- 2. Classical vs Non-Classical Logics.- 2.1. Defining the Issues.- 2.2. The Case for Non-Classical Logic.- 2.3. The Non-Classical Logic H.- 2.4. An Evaluation of H.- 3. Alternative Model Theories.- 3.1. Introduction.- 3.2. World-Selection-Function Models.- 3.3. System-of-Spheres Models.- 3.4. Relational Models.- 3.5. Class-Selection-Function Models.- 3.6. Neighborhood Models.- 3.7. Extensional Models.- 3.8. Summary of Equivalence Results.- 3.9. Depth.- 4. Classical Analyses of Conditionals.- 4.1. Introduction.- 4.2. Stalnaker and the Uniqueness Assumption.- 4.3. Lewis and Systems of Spheres.- 4.4. Gabbay and the Role of Consequents.- 4.5. Pollock and Justification Conditions.- 4.6. Adams and Probabilistic Entailment.- 5. Causation and the Temporal Regularity of Subjunctive Conditionals.- 5.1. Introduction.- 5.2. The Counterfactual Analysis of Event Causation.- 5.3. A Miraculous Analysis and a Non-Miraculous Analysis.- 5.4. Lewis’s Miraculous Analysis.- 6. Subjunctive Probabilities.- 6.1. A New Species of Conditional Probability.- 6.2. Relative Reasonableness.- 6.3. General Semantics for Subjunctive Probabilities.- 6.4. Subjunctive Probabilities and Probabilistic Entailment.- 6.5. Conditionals, Probability, and Decision Theory.- 7. Algebraic Semantics.- 7.1. Introduction.- 7.2. Algebras.- 7.3. Algebras and Models.- 7.4. Some Independence Results.- 7.5. Non-Classical Logics.- List of Rules and Theses.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

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