This is the best graduate class I've ever taught, focusing on the tiny word "if" and its meanings. I don't think I'll ever do this much work again on a single seminar.
Philosophy 691, Fall 2011.
Philosophy 691, Fall 2011.
- Bennett, Ch. 1: Introduction
- Bennett, Ch. 2: Grice
- Bennett, Ch. 3: Jackson
- The Equation
- The Bombshell
- Gibbardian Standoffs
- No-Truth-Value Views
- Lycan on Conditional Assertion
- Bennett, Ch. 10: Subjunctives
- Stalnaker, Density, Limits
- 'Might' Counterfactuals
- Closeness
- The Hawthorne Problem, Backwards Counterfactuals, and Some Metaphysics
- Stalnaker's 'Indicative Conditionals'
- Stalnaker's Inquiry, Ch. 6
- Rejecting an Open Conditional
- Lycan, I
- Lycan, II
- Back on the Riverboat
- Edgington on Counterfactuals