Williamson on counterpossibles

Berto, Francesco; French, Rohan; Priest, Graham; Ripley, David

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08/2018

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Abstract

A counterpossible conditional is a counterfactual with an impossible antecedent. Common sense delivers the view that some such conditionals are true, and some are false. In recent publications, Timothy Williamson has defended the view that all are true. In this paper we defend the common sense view against Williamson’s objections.

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Berto , F , French , R , Priest , G & Ripley , D 2018 , ' Williamson on counterpossibles ' , Journal of Philosophical Logic , vol. 47 , no. 4 , pp. 693-713 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-017-9446-x

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Journal of Philosophical Logic

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Peer reviewed

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-017-9446-x

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0022-3611

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Journal article

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© The Author(s) 2017. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

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This research is published within the project ‘The Logic of Conceivability’, funded by the European Research Council (ERC CoG), grant number 681404.

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University of St Andrews Research

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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15956