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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bonanno, Giacomo

Titel

The Material Conditional is Sufficient to Model Deliberation

Ist Teil von

• Erkenntnis, 2023, Vol.88 (1), p.325-349

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• There is an ongoing debate in the philosophical literature whether the conditionals that are central to deliberation are subjunctive or indicative conditionals and, if the latter, what semantics of the indicative conditional is compatible with the role that conditionals play in deliberation. We propose a possible-world semantics where conditionals of the form “if I take action a the outcome will be x ” are interpreted as material conditionals. The proposed framework is illustrated with familiar examples and both qualitative and probabilistic beliefs are considered. Issues such as common-cause cases and ‘Egan-style’ cases are discussed.