book chapter · 2023

Conditionals

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Abstract

Abstract This chapter provides an inferential expressivist treatment of indicative and subjunctive conditionals. The previous chapters have focused on speech acts, such as assertion, whose force applies to a single sentence. This chapter begins by arguing for the existence of binary speech acts, such as conditional assertion, whose force relates two sentences. The chapter then explains the meaning of embeddable conditional operators in terms of their inferential relation to unembeddable conditional speech acts. The chapter goes on to show how the resulting account of the indicative conditional meets the challenge posed by the Gibbard Collapse Argument and, when combined with the theory of truth from the previous chapter, solves Curry’s Paradox. The chapter ends by implementing the distinction between content and inferential conditionals in the framework of the book and arguing for the existence of a plurality of conditionals.

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APA 7

Incurvati, L., & Schlöder, J. J. (2023). Conditionals. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197620984.003.0008

MLA 9

Incurvati, Luca, and Julian J. Schlöder. “Conditionals.” 2023, pp. 227–70, https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197620984.003.0008.

Chicago

Incurvati, Luca, and Julian J. Schlöder. 2023. “Conditionals.” https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197620984.003.0008.

Harvard

Incurvati, L. and Schlöder, J.J. (2023) ‘Conditionals’. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197620984.003.0008.

BibTeX

@incollection{incurvati2023conditionals,
  title = {{Conditionals}},
  author = {Incurvati, Luca and Schlöder, Julian J.},
  pages = {227--270},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.1093/oso/9780197620984.003.0008}
}

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