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Gunnar Björnsson (Göteborg University)
Friday 11 May 2007, 12:00-13:30
Understanding counterfactuals
- 👤 Speaker: Gunnar Björnsson (Göteborg University)
- 📅 Date & Time: Friday 11 May 2007, 12:00 - 13:30
- 📍 Venue: Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Abstract
Standard theories of counterfactual conditionals are not only extensionally inadequate, but fail to make intelligible why the proposed truth-conditions would attach to natural language conditionals or counterfactual thought in science, philosophy, or everyday life. This talk will explain how a naturalistic contextualist account of conditionals can remedy these problems by tying the truth- conditions of counterfactuals to the cognitive function of natural inferential mechanisms.
Series This talk is part of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science series.
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