Topics in Conditional Logic

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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.