Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability

Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability comprises fifteen original essays on themes from the work of Dorothy Edgington, the first woman to hold a chair in philosophy at Oxford.

Eminent contributors from philosophy and linguistics discuss a range of topics including conditionals, vagueness, knowledge, reasoning, and probability.

1 Lee Walters: Introduction; 2 Dorothy Edgington: Philosophy and Me; 3 Daniel Rothschild: A Note on Conditionals and Restrictors; 4 Angelika Kratzer: Chasing Hook: Quantified Indicative Conditionals; 5 David Over: New Paradigm Psychology of Conditional Reasoning and its Philosophical Sources; 6 Cleo Condoravdi: Counterfactuals to the Rescue; 7 Robert Stalnaker: Counterfactuals and Probability; 8 Sabine Iatridou: Grammar Matters; 9 Kit Fine: Constructing the Impossible; 10 John Hawthorne: The Epistemic Use of 'Ought'; 11 Scott Sturgeon: Undercutting Defeat and Edgington's Burglar; 12 Timothy Williamson: Edgington on Possible Knowledge of Unknown Truth; 13 Rosanna Keefe: Prefaces, Sorites and Guides to Reasoning; 14 Alan Hajek: Hysteresis Hypotheses; 15 Nick Jones: Verities and Truth-values; Bibliography of Edgington's Work