Modalised conditionals: a response to Willer
Philosophical Studies 163 (3):673-682 (2013)
| Abstract | A paper by Schulz (Philos Stud 149:367–386, 2010) describes how the suppositional view of indicative conditionals can be supplemented with a derived view of epistemic modals. In a recent criticism of this paper, Willer (Philos Stud 153:365–375, 2011) argues that the resulting account of conditionals and epistemic modals cannot do justice to the validity of certain inference patterns involving modalised conditionals. In the present response, I analyse Willer’s argument, identify an implicit presupposition which can plausibly be denied and show that accepting it would blur the difference between plain assumptions and their epistemic necessitations | |||||||||
| Keywords | Indicative conditionals Epistemic modals Modalised conditionals Suppositional view | |||||||||
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