Counterfactuals and probability:
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Preface ix
1. Introduction 1
1.1 Uncertainty about Counterfactuals 2
1.2 Where Uncertainty Shows Up 5
1.3 The Debate about Indicative Conditionals 6
1.4 Counterfactuals 11
1.5 Standard Semantics 13
1.6 Systematizing the Data 16
1.7 Identifying the Challenge 19
1.8 Non-Standard Explanations 21
1.9 Modifying the Semantics 25
1.10 Overview 27
2. The Problem of Evaluating Counterfactuals 29
2.1 Probability 30
2.2 Prior Epistemic Probabilities 39
2.3 Hypothetical Epistemic Probabilities 45
2.4 Prior Propensities 48
2.4.1 Morgenbesser Cases 51
2.4.2 Counterfactuals and Determinism 54
2.4.3 Counterlegals 56
2.4.4 Probabilistic Modus Ponens 57
2.5 Conclusion 58
3. Counterfactual Chance 60
3.1 The Selection Function 60
3.2 Relevance and Chance 63
3.3 A Principal Principle for Counterfactuals 70
3.4 Admissible Evidence 72
3.5 Comparison with Skyrms 78
3.6 Imaging 79
3.7 Generalized Imaging 82
3.8 Imaging and the PP-Constraint 84
3.9 Some Methodological Considerations 88
3.10 Conclusion 92
4. A Puzzle About Counterfactuals 95
4.1 The Problem for Standard Semantics 96
4.2 The Puzzle 102
4.3 A Means of Escape 107
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4.4 Comparison with Indicative Conditionals 110
4.5 Conclusion 114
5. Restriction and Modification 116
5.1 The Restrictor View 117
5.2 Simple Conditionals 120
5.3 Counterfactual Tf’-Clauses as Restrictors 123
5.4 Counterfactual Tf’-Clauses as Modifiers 126
5.5 Variants of the View 131
5.6 The Lack of Independent Evidence 134
5.7 The Problem of Embeddings 138
5.8 Conclusion 144
6. Counterfactuals and Arbitrariness 146
6.1 A Proposal 147
6.L1 The Epsilon-Operator 149
6.1.2 Arbitrary Truth Conditions 153
6.1.3 The Logic of Counterfactuals 155
6.1.4 The Metaphysics of Arbitrariness 162
6.1.5 Comparisons 167
6.2 The Evaluation of Counterfactuals 168
6.2.1 Uniformity Reconsidered 170
6.2.2 Modelling the Epistemic Space 173
6.3 Knowability and Assertability 176
6.4 Revisiting the Puzzle 181
6.5 Conclusion 182
7. Applications 183
7.1 Counterfactuals with a True Antecedent 183
7.2 Duality 188
7.3 Conditional Excluded Middle 194
7.4 The Limit Assumption 197
8. Triviality 200
8.1 Lewis on Imaging 201
8.2 Leitgebs Observation 203
8.3 Williams’s Extension of Lewis’s Triviality Result 205
8.4 Conclusion 212
9. Concluding Remarks 215
9.1 Error Theories 216
9.2 Pragmatic Explanations 219
9.3 Unifying the Theory? 220
9.4 Conclusion 223
Bibliography 225
Index 235
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