Knowledge and Conditionals Essays on the Structure of Inquiry

by Stalnaker, Robert C.

• ISBN13: 9780198810346
• ISBN10: 0198810342
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-09-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Robert C. Stalnaker, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert Stalnaker received his PhD in philosophy at Princeton University in 1965, and subsequently taught philosophy over the next fifty years at Yale University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cornell University, and MIT. He is the author of four books: Inquiry (MIT Press 1984), Our Knowledge of the Internal World (Oxford 2007), Mere Possibilities (Princeton 2012), and Context (Oxford 2015), as well as two previous collections of papers: Context and Content (Oxford 1999) and Ways a World Might Be (Oxford 2003). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.

Table of Contents

Part I: Knowledge
1. On the logics of knowledge and belief
2. Luminosity and the KK principle
3. Iterated belief revision
4. Modeling a perspective on the world
5. Reflection, Endorsement, Calibration
6. Rational reflection and the notorious unmarked clock
7. Expressivism and propositions
8. Contextualism and the logic of knowledge
Part II: Conditionals
9. A theory of conditionals
10. Conditional assertions and conditional propositions
11. Counterfactuals and probability
12. Dispositions and chance