The epistemology of indicative conditionals :: formal and empirical approaches /
"Conditionals are sentences of the form 'If A, then B', and they play a central role in scientific, logical, and everyday reasoning. They have been in the philosophical limelight for centuries, and more recently, they have been receiving attention from psychologists, linguists, and co...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Conditionals are sentences of the form 'If A, then B', and they play a central role in scientific, logical, and everyday reasoning. They have been in the philosophical limelight for centuries, and more recently, they have been receiving attention from psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists. In spite of this, many key questions concerning conditionals remain unanswered. While most of the work on conditionals has addressed semantical questions - questions about the truth conditions of conditionals - this book focuses on the main epistemological questions that conditionals give rise to, such as: what are the probabilities of conditionals? When is a conditional acceptable or assertable? What do we learn when we receive new conditional information? In answering these questions, this book combines the formal tools of logic and probability theory with the experimental approach of cognitive psychology. It will be of interest to students and researchers in logic, epistemology, and psychology of reasoning"-- "The importance of the role that conditionals play in both everyday and scientific discourse and reasoning is hard to overestimate. Perhaps it is no surprise then that for quite some time, conditionals have been a central area of investigation not only in philosophy, but also in linguistics and psychology, and to some extent in computer science. What is surprising, however, is that despite the considerable expenditure of time and effort of many researchers from those fields, there is still little that one can say about conditionals that is not highly controversial"-- |
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| spelling | Douven, Igor, author. The epistemology of indicative conditionals : formal and empirical approaches / Igor Douven. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016. ©2016 1 online resource (xii, 220 pages .) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "Conditionals are sentences of the form 'If A, then B', and they play a central role in scientific, logical, and everyday reasoning. They have been in the philosophical limelight for centuries, and more recently, they have been receiving attention from psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists. In spite of this, many key questions concerning conditionals remain unanswered. While most of the work on conditionals has addressed semantical questions - questions about the truth conditions of conditionals - this book focuses on the main epistemological questions that conditionals give rise to, such as: what are the probabilities of conditionals? When is a conditional acceptable or assertable? What do we learn when we receive new conditional information? In answering these questions, this book combines the formal tools of logic and probability theory with the experimental approach of cognitive psychology. It will be of interest to students and researchers in logic, epistemology, and psychology of reasoning"-- Provided by publisher "The importance of the role that conditionals play in both everyday and scientific discourse and reasoning is hard to overestimate. Perhaps it is no surprise then that for quite some time, conditionals have been a central area of investigation not only in philosophy, but also in linguistics and psychology, and to some extent in computer science. What is surprising, however, is that despite the considerable expenditure of time and effort of many researchers from those fields, there is still little that one can say about conditionals that is not highly controversial"-- Provided by publisher Print version record. 1. Agenda -- 2. Semantics -- 3. Probability -- 4. Acceptability -- 5. Closure -- 6. Updating -- 7. Progress? -- Appendices. English. Grammar, Comparative and general Conditionals. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86002337 Knowledge, Theory of. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072732 Semantics (Philosophy) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85119877 Conditionnel. Théorie de la connaissance. Sémantique (Philosophie) epistemology. aat PHILOSOPHY Logic. bisacsh LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Grammar & Punctuation. bisacsh LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Linguistics Syntax. bisacsh Grammar, Comparative and general Conditionals fast Knowledge, Theory of fast Semantics (Philosophy) fast Electronic books. Print version: 9781107111455 1107111455 (DLC) 2015016414 (OCoLC)912872372 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1077369 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Douven, Igor The epistemology of indicative conditionals : formal and empirical approaches / 1. Agenda -- 2. Semantics -- 3. Probability -- 4. Acceptability -- 5. Closure -- 6. Updating -- 7. Progress? -- Appendices. Grammar, Comparative and general Conditionals. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86002337 Knowledge, Theory of. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072732 Semantics (Philosophy) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85119877 Conditionnel. Théorie de la connaissance. Sémantique (Philosophie) epistemology. aat PHILOSOPHY Logic. bisacsh LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Grammar & Punctuation. bisacsh LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Linguistics Syntax. bisacsh Grammar, Comparative and general Conditionals fast Knowledge, Theory of fast Semantics (Philosophy) fast |
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| title | The epistemology of indicative conditionals : formal and empirical approaches / |
| title_auth | The epistemology of indicative conditionals : formal and empirical approaches / |
| title_exact_search | The epistemology of indicative conditionals : formal and empirical approaches / |
| title_full | The epistemology of indicative conditionals : formal and empirical approaches / Igor Douven. |
| title_fullStr | The epistemology of indicative conditionals : formal and empirical approaches / Igor Douven. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The epistemology of indicative conditionals : formal and empirical approaches / Igor Douven. |
| title_short | The epistemology of indicative conditionals : |
| title_sort | epistemology of indicative conditionals formal and empirical approaches |
| title_sub | formal and empirical approaches / |
| topic | Grammar, Comparative and general Conditionals. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86002337 Knowledge, Theory of. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072732 Semantics (Philosophy) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85119877 Conditionnel. Théorie de la connaissance. Sémantique (Philosophie) epistemology. aat PHILOSOPHY Logic. bisacsh LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Grammar & Punctuation. bisacsh LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Linguistics Syntax. bisacsh Grammar, Comparative and general Conditionals fast Knowledge, Theory of fast Semantics (Philosophy) fast |
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