...This chapter focuses on the contrast between future simple past subjunctive conditionals and future past perfect subjunctive conditionals. It reviews proposals made to account for this contrast and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. These include Ogihara’s proposal, which is concerned...

...This chapter presents an approach for analyzing subjunctive conditionals and shows how it solves the puzzles identified in Chapter 2. It accounts for the following two observations. First, simple past subjunctive conditionals are felicitous only if the event or state talked about in the antecedent...

...This chapter discusses an interesting asymmetry between the past and the future among subjunctive conditionals. It argues that the best account of our linguistic intuitions must include an indeterministic view of the world. Accessibility Future Past Time Broomstick Indeterminism Lewis D...

... clauses. Very little of the extensive literature on subjunctive conditionals tries to account for the meaning of these sentences compositionally or to relate this meaning to their linguistic form; this book fills that gap, connecting the different lines of research on conditionals. The book reviews...

...-propositional analysis. This chapter considers Edgington’s NTV account of subjunctive conditionals, the role of objective probability in the account, and its relation to the possible-worlds propositional analysis of subjunctive conditionals. Bennett Jonathan Iatridou Sabine Lewis David Conditionals Degree...

... approach to counterfactuals Stalnaker Robert account of counterfactuals backward causation causal loops causation preventability subjunctive conditionals In this chapter and the next I shall turn to the task of offering positive support for the claim that the world is a dynamic one in which the past...

... idioms ‘only if’ Appiah Anthony Barker Stephen J ‘if … then’ antecedent conditionals consequent indicative conditionals relocation subjunctive conditionals ‘If the American ambassador had understood her instructions, Iraq would not have invaded Kuwait.’ ‘If Shackleton had known how to ski...

...Extreme realism (Lewis), and abstract realism, about worlds. Introducing an approach to subjunctive conditionals through possible worlds; use of this to explain the failure of transitivity and antecedent strengthening. The notion of variably strict conditionals is explained, and the logical...

...The primacy of causal laws in subjunctive conditionals is explained. Discussion of miracles at forks, and of counter‐legal conditionals: ones about what would have been the case if some actual causal law had been false. Subjunctives are ‘impossibility‐intolerant’; comparison of this with the zero...

... causal chain’. Independent subjunctives are identified and snubbed. Lewis David particular facts worlds Cross Charles B Slote Michael A Tichý Pavel indeterminism logic of subjunctives Gupta Anil Johnson David Thomason Richmond subjunctive conditionals Anscombe G E M Edgington Dorothy...

...By Lewis's account, it may be unduly hard for subjunctive conditionals to be outright true. We could weaken them by deeming each one to be true if its antecedent makes its consequent highly probable. Or we could follow Edgington's proposal that subjunctive conditionals should not be thought...

...Criticism of a popular argument for refusing to allow backward subjunctives conditionals, i.e. ones whose consequent pertains to a time earlier than that of the antecedent; and of accounts of such conditionals by Jackson and Davis. A tenable account of them is found to be nested within Lewis's...

...Detailed exposition and evaluation of Goodman's approach to subjunctive conditionals. The cotenability problem is shown to be an amalgam of two problems: about causal contraposition and about logical cleansing. Solutions by Parry are expounded, with help from Pollock's notion of a simple...

... (where the latter is key to perspectival realism) and responds to possible objections. Finally, the chapter returns to the inferential reasoning supported by perspectival models and highlights a division of modal labour between indicative conditionals and subjunctive conditionals with the former...

... indicative and subjunctive conditionals described in Chapter 5 is here applied to tease out and exemplify how our knowledge that there is an electric charge is the outcome of epistemic communities across scientific perspectives engaging in an inferential game of asking for reasons as to why...

... conditionals. I argue that the resulting theory avoids some recent triviality results that have seemed to threaten the possibility of predicting plausible probabilities for subjunctive conditionals, and I prove that the resulting theory is tenable. chance possibility Hájek Alan Moss Sarah Santorio Paolo...

...This introductory chapter begins by explaining the concept of subjunctive conditionals. It then reviews some previous analyses of counterfactuals, and more generally subjunctive conditionals, that will be relevant for the proposal to be developed in Chapter 3. Topics discussed include...

...This chapter assesses whether the generalization that the presuppositions in the antecedent must be compatible with the actual world at the utterance time in simple past subjunctive conditionals but not in past perfect subjunctive conditionals holds of other types of presuppositions: the definite...

... subjunctive conditionals intuitions truth felicity past morphology bare conditional When interpreting a subjunctive conditional (and a counterfactual in particular), how are we going to select the set of antecedent-worlds quantified over by the modal? This is the question that I set out to answer...

... an objection to the view that metaphysical necessity can be reductively explained in terms of subjunctive conditionals. 347 References Arnauld, Antoine . ( 1984 ). Fourth Set of Objections , in John Cottingham , Robert Stoothoff , and Dugald Murdoch (eds...