Conditional Acceptance
Wednesday 28 October 2015, 4.00PM to 5.30pm
Speaker(s): Dr Ofra Magidor, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Conditional Acceptance
Abstract: The questions of what are the correct semantics for indicative conditionals, and relatedly, under what circumstances one should accept a conditional are notoriously difficult. In this paper I present a new challenge for addressing these issues. I will present a case involving an utterance of an indicative conditional. I show that three highly prominent theories of conditionals predict that in the case you should give the conditional a high credence, but argue that this prediction is wrong. I conclude by discussing what lessons we can learn from this both for the semantics of conditionals and in epistemology more generally.
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Location: Department of Philosophy, Room SB/A009, Sally Baldwin Building, Block A
Admission: Departmental Colloquium members and postgraduate students