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SUMMARY:Understanding counterfactuals - Gunnar Björnsson (Göteborg Unive
 rsity)
DTSTART:20070511T110000Z
DTEND:20070511T123000Z
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DESCRIPTION: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 counterf
 actual thought in science\, philosophy\, or everyday life. This talk will 
 explain how a naturalistic contextualist account of conditionals can remed
 y these problems by tying the truth- conditions of counterfactuals to the 
 cognitive function of natural inferential mechanisms.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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