Counterfactuals and Probability

Zusatztext This is an exciting investigation of the semantics of counterfactuals that I highly recommend to both experts and people who want to catch up with recent results in the literature. It addresses both epistemic and metaphysical aspects of counterfactuals, and develops a novel refinement of the standard semantics. ... a well written and original study that merits reading from various perspectives. Informationen zum Autor Moritz Schulz studied Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Hamburg before completing a BPhil at Oxford University. Shultz received his PhD from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2011. Since then, he completed a post-doc at the University of Barcelona and acted as an assistant at the University of Tübingen before taking up his current role as junior professor at the University of Hamburg. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung This volume explores counterfactual thought and language. We can typically evaluate counterfactual questions probabilistically, predicting what would be likely or unlikely to happen. Schulz describes these probabilistic ways of evaluating counterfactual questions and turns the data into a novel account of the workings of counterfactual thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: The Problem of Evaluating Counterfactuals 3: Counterfactual Chances 4: A Puzzle About Counterfactuals 5: Restriction and Modification 6: Counterfactuals and Arbitrariness 7: Applications 8: Triviality 9: Concluding Remarks

Product details

• Authors: Moritz Schulz, Moritz (University of Hamburg) Schulz, Schulz Moritz
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.02.2017
• EAN: 9780198785958
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878595-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, Philosophy, Probability & statistics, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Probability and statistics, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge