The Epistemology of Indicative Conditionals: Formal and Empirical Approaches
The Epistemology of Indicative Conditionals: Formal and Empirical Approaches
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指示性条件句的认识论：形式和经验方法
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2015
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I. Douven
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条件句是“如果A，那么B”形式的句子，它们在科学、逻辑和日常推理中发挥着核心作用。几个世纪以来，它们一直处于哲学的聚光灯下，最近，它们也受到了心理学家、语言学家和计算机科学家的关注。尽管如此，关于条件句的许多关键问题仍然没有得到回答。虽然大多数关于条件句的工作都解决了语义问题--关于条件句的真值条件的问题--但这本书集中在条件句引起的主要认识论问题上，例如：条件句的概率是多少？什么时候条件条件是可接受的或可断言的？当我们收到新的条件信息时，我们学到了什么？在回答这些问题时，本书将逻辑和概率论的形式工具与认知心理学的实验方法相结合。它将引起学生和研究人员在逻辑、认识论和推理心理学方面的兴趣。
Conditionals are sentences of the form “If A, then B,” and they play a central role in scientific, logical, and everyday reasoning. They have been in the philosophical limelight for centuries, and more recently, they have also been receiving attention from psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists. In spite of this, many key questions concerning conditionals remain unanswered. While most of the work on conditionals has addressed semantical questions – questions about the truth conditions of conditionals – this book focusses on the main epistemological questions that conditionals give rise to, such as: What are the probabilities of conditionals? When is a conditional acceptable or assertable? What do we learn when we receive new conditional information? In answering these questions, this book combines the formal tools of logic and probability theory with the experimental approach of cognitive psychology. It will be of interest to students and researchers in logic, epistemology, and the psychology of reasoning.