NARROWNESS OF WIDE-SCOPE PRINCIPLES

• Authors: David Botting
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper the author will propose that the unpalatable consequences of narrow-scope principles are not avoided by altering the scope of the principle but by changing the kind of conditional. He argues that a counterfactual conditional should do the trick and that the rational requirement of modus ponens can be understood as something like a “Ramsey test” on this conditional.

Keywords

EN

COUNTERFACTUAL CONDITIONALS; MODUS PONENS; RAMSEY TEST; RATIONALITY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 177 – 203

Contributors

author

David Botting

• Instituto de Filosofia da Nova, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa 4 Piso, 26-C Av. de Berna, Lisbon 1069-061, Portugal