Interventionist counterfactuals

Briggs, Rachael

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“…The problem of apt representations is 21 The extent to which this is an objective constraint corresponds to the extent to which the truth of counterfactuals is an objective matter. For further exploration of the semantics for counterfactuals embedded in structural equation models see Shulz (2011) andBriggs (2012). 22 As Halpern and Hitchcock (2010, p. 394) put the point: ''A modeler has considerable leeway in choosing which variables to include in a model.…”

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Grounding in the image of causation

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“…The new argument also provides a welcome opportunity to explore the logic of unconditionals, which has been relatively under‐investigated. Linguists and philosophers have already spilled a lot of ink debating whether modus ponens , modus tollens , exportation, simplification of disjunctive antecedents (SDA), and other inference rules hold for different species of the if ‐conditional (see Lewis ; Nute ; Fine , ,b; Ellis, Jackson & Pargetter ; Gibbard ; McGee ; Gillies ; Alonso‐Ovalle , ; Kolodny & MacFarlane ; Willer , ; Briggs ; Yalcin ; Khoo ; Bledin ; Stojnić ; Charlow ms . ; among many others).…”

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Fatalism and the Logic of Unconditionals

Bledin

2018

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In this paper, I consider a variant of the ancient Idle Argument involving so‐called “unconditionals” with interrogative antecedents. This new Idle Argument provides an ideal setting for probing the logic of these close relatives of if‐conditionals, which has been comparatively underexplored. In the course of refuting the argument, I argue that contrary to received wisdom, many unconditionals do not entail their main clauses, yet modus ponens is still unrestrictedly valid for this class of expressions. I make these lessons precise in a formal system drawing on recent work in inquisitive semantics. My larger aim is to challenge standard truth preservation accounts of logic and deductive argumentation.

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“…C and the counterfactuals of the form 'e occurs h! C' for each e 2 E. Following Briggs (2012) and Schulz (2011), we could say that A h! C is true just in case all of these counterfactuals are true.…”

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The future, and what might have been

Briggs

Forbes

2018

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We show that five important elements of the 'nomological package'-laws, counterfactuals, chances, dispositions, and counterfactuals-needn't be a problem for the Growing-Block view. We begin with the framework given in Briggs and Forbes (in The real truth about the unreal future. Oxford studies in metaphysics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012), and, taking laws as primitive, we show that the Growing-Block view has the resources to provide an account of possibility, and a natural semantics for non-backtracking causal counterfactuals. We show how objective chances might ground a more fine-grained concept of feasibility, and furnished a places in the structure where causation and dispositions might fit. The Growing-Block view, thus understood, provides the resources to explain the close link between modality and tense, so that it predicts modal change as time passes. This account lets us capture not only what the future might hold for us, and also what might have been.

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Interventionist counterfactuals

Cited by 185 publications

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Grounding in the image of causation

Fatalism and the Logic of Unconditionals

The future, and what might have been

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