Subjunctive Conditional Probability

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作者
Schwarz, Wolfgang [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Edinburgh, Sch Philosophy Psychol & Language Sci, 3 Charles St, Edinburgh EH8 9AD, Midlothian, Scotland
关键词
Probability; Supposition; Counterfactuals; Triviality; Decision theory; SEMANTICS; CHANCE; COUNTERFACTUALS; CREDENCE;
D O I
10.1007/s10992-016-9416-8
中图分类号
B81 [逻辑学(论理学)];
学科分类号
010104 ; 010105 ;
摘要
There seem to be two ways of supposing a proposition: supposing "indicatively" that Shakespeare didn't write Hamlet, it is likely that someone else did; supposing "subjunctively" that Shakespeare hadn't written Hamlet, it is likely that nobody would have written the play. Let P(B//A) be the probability of B on the subjunctive supposition that A. Is P(B//A) equal to the probability of the corresponding counterfactual, A square -> B? I review recent triviality arguments against this hypothesis and argue that they do not succeed. On the other hand, I argue that even if we can equate P(B//A) with P(A square -> B), we still need an account of how subjunctive conditional probabilities are related to unconditional probabilities. The triviality arguments reveal that the connection is not as straightforward as one might have hoped.
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页码:47 / 66
页数:20
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