Lewis’s revised conditional analysis revisited

Gundersen, Eline Busck

doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1151-8

Synthese

2016

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1151-8

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Lewis’s revised conditional analysis revisited

Eline Busck Gundersen

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“…Luthor is a fink to Superman's superpower since Luthor would fire a Kryptonite beam at him and thereby eliminate his superpower. It is worth emphasising that, as cogently pointed out by many philosophers (Fara 2005;Gundersen 2017), the phenomenon of dispositional interference is ubiquitous in scientific and everyday practices. We are disposed to feel pain when injured but its manifestation is often prevented by taking a painkiller.…”

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“…It is worth emphasising that, as cogently pointed out by many philosophers (Fara 2005;Gundersen 2017), the phenomenon of dispositional interference is ubiquitous in scientific and everyday practices. Luthor is a fink to Superman's superpower since Luthor would fire a Kryptonite beam at him and thereby eliminate his superpower.…”

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“…We have seen earlier that if Self-Protective Glass were to be struck and were to retain M, then it would break, which entails that, according to RCA, it is fragile. The biggest question mark has been on how to implement this strategy in specific examples in an explicit and principled manner, which I won't recount herefor a concise survey of them, see Gundersen (2017). It would remain unbroken thanks to the work of the M-removing property.…”

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“…22 For a criticism of Lewis's analysis, see Bird (1998), Choi (2009), Hajek (2016, and Gundersen (2017). 22 For a criticism of Lewis's analysis, see Bird (1998), Choi (2009), Hajek (2016, and Gundersen (2017).…”

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“…But numerous criticisms have been mounted against Lewis's strategy. The biggest question mark has been on how to implement this strategy in specific examples in an explicit and principled manner, which I won't recount herefor a concise survey of them, see Gundersen (2017). The point l like to make here is that it is even more murky how to implement Lewis's strategy of getting specific in putative cases of intrinsic antidotes to D like Antidotic Glass: there seems to be no principled way of ruling out the intrinsic property T from the characteristic stimulus of fragility in a way that doesn't trivialise the analysans of RCA.…”

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Reverse‐Cycle Intrinsic Finks

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There is an ongoing debate among metaphysicians of dispositions about whether intrinsic interferers are possible for dispositions. What is interesting about this debate is that, whilst it is widely noted that dispositional interferers can work on a 'reverse' cycle, the possibility of reverse-cycle intrinsic interferers has been put on the sidelines with all the attention being paid to the possibility of their 'normal' cousins. Presumably this is due to the perception that a discussion of reverse-cycle interferers will be a trivial repetition of a discussion of normal ones. But I will argue that this perception is wrong. Whilst I acknowledge that there is a significant symmetry between the possibility of normal interferers and that of reverse-cycle ones, it is not a trivial task to give an account of intrinsic interferers in a way that accommodates this symmetry. In fact, when we examine the justifications the participants in this debate have offered for their positions, it will emerge that they are all under pressure to reject the possibility of reverse-cycle intrinsic interferers. What is intriguing about this result is that what advocates of the possibility of normal intrinsic interferers have said in support of that possibility, rather unexpectedly, puts pressure on them to reject the possibility of reverse-cycle intrinsic interferers. Combined with the symmetry between the possibility of normal interferers and that of reverse-cycle ones, this will pose a serious challenge to them.

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Conjunction Conditionalization and Irrelevant Semifactuals

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2018

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Are counterfactuals with true antecedents and consequents trivially true? The principle of Conjunction Conditionalization ((A∧C)→(A>C)) is highly controversial. Many philosophers view it as an attractive feature of Lewis's semantics for counterfactuals that it can easily be modified to avoid this principle. However, Walters and Williams (2013) beg to differ. They argue that Conjunction Conditionalization is an indispensable ingredient of any Lewisian semantics, since CC is entailed by standard Lewisian theorems and a plausible semantic claim about irrelevant semifactuals. If this is true, the entire tradition of revisionist counterfactual semantics is misguided, and so are many philosophical theories in which counterfactuals play a role. We argue, in defense of the revisionist tradition, that Walters and Williams' ‘plausible semantic claim’ is in fact anything but plausible. It turns out to entail semantic principles far more controversial than Conjunction Conditionalization.

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Dispositional Interferers and the Metaphysics of Superheroes

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Lewis’s revised conditional analysis revisited

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Reverse‐Cycle Intrinsic Finks

Conjunction Conditionalization and Irrelevant Semifactuals

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