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Zusatztext All in all a first-rate volume. Highly commended. Informationen zum Autor Michael Woods is a general surgeon and healthcare executive living in Lawrence, KS. He grew up in the Midwest and developed a love for the outdoors and life's rich complexity and interconnectedness while working on a western Kansas ranch. He attended the University of Kansas, majored in Cellular Biology, did research in a virus lab, and minored in anthropology. He then completed medical school and general surgery training, becoming a board-certified general surgeon. Tiring of the practice and politics of medicine, he became a researcher at a major pharmaceutical company, where he became the global medical leader of a worldwide drug development program. In this position, he traveled the globe, giving him rich insights and a deep appreciation of other cultures. His background in anthropology, combined with his broad knowledge and experience in clinical and research medicine and extensive travel, is a potent combination for creating rich stories based on scientifically plausible- even factual- scenarios, as in Olduvai Countdown, his first fiction novel. Michael is a well-recognized author in the medical trade press, having written and published four non-fiction books in the healthcare genre. His most successful book is Healing Words, a best seller for the publisher, generating combined sales of 19,000 in a niche market with very little promotion (First and Second Editions). He is the editor of a fifth publication that has sold 15,000 copies. His non-fiction works have been favorably reviewed in the industry press. Klappentext Conditionals has at its centre an extended essay on this problematic and much-debated subject in the philosophy of language and logic by the widely respected Oxford philosopher Michael Woods. It has been edited by his eminent colleague David Wiggins! and is accompanied by a commentary specially written by a leading expert on the topic! Dorothy Edgington. This masterly and original treatment of conditionals will demand the attention of all philosophersworking in this area. Zusammenfassung 'Conditionals' is a problematic and much-debated subject in the philosophy of language and logic. This work discusses the distinctions between different kinds of conditionals, and then goes on to cover a range of topics, including assertibility, conditional probability, possible-worlds theories, and conditional demands and questions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword CONDITIONALS The Varieties of Conditional Theories of Simple Conditionals Ramsey's Test and Adam's Hypothesis Simple Conditionals and Truth-Values: Some Proposals Conditionals and Possible Worlds Compound Conditionals and Truth-Values A Theory of Simple Conditionals Sketch of a Theory of Counterfactual Conditionals COMMENTARY Taxonomy Assertibility Ramsey and Adams Truth Values Possible Worlds Compounds Other Conditional Speech Acts Non-Simple Conditionals List of Works Cited Michael Woods 1934-1993: Obituary and Curriculum Vitae Index ...
