Readings
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- Jonathan Bennett, Philosophical Guide, Ch. 1-3.
- Jonathan Bennett, Philosophical Guide, Ch. 4.
- David Lewis, ‘Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities’.
- Jonathan Bennett, Philosophical Guide, Ch. 6.
- Dorothy Edgington, ‘Conditionals’, Section 4.
- Allan Gibbard, ‘Two Recent Theories of Conditionals’. (Optional).
- Robert Stalnaker, ‘Indicative Conditionals’.
- Jonathan Bennett, Philosophical Guide, Ch. 7.
- Dorothy Edgington, ‘On Conditionals’, §§7-9.
- Jonathan Bennett, Philosophical Guide, Ch. 7.
- Dorothy Edgington, ‘On Conditionals’, §§7-9.
- Robert Stalnaker, ‘Conditional propositions and conditional assertions’. (Optional).
- Angelika Kratzer, ‘Conditionals’.
- Angelika Kratzer, ‘Chasing Hook’. (Optional).
- Daniel Rothschild, ‘A note on conditionals and restrictors’.
- Jonathan Bennett, Philosophical Guide, Ch. 10-11.
- David Lewis, Counterfactuals, Ch. 1. (Optional).
- Jonathan Bennett, Philosophical Guide, Ch. 11.
- J. Robert G. Williams, ‘Defending Conditional Excluded Middle’.
- Stefan Kaufmann, ‘Conditioning against the grain’.
- Vann McGee, ‘To Tell the Truth about Conditionals’.
- J. Robert G. Williams, ‘Counterfactual Triviality’.
- Wolfgang Schwarz, ‘Subjunctive conditional probability’. (Optional).
- Jonathan Bennett, Philosophical Guide, Ch. 20.
- Nelson Goodman, ‘The problem of counterfactual conditionals’.
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