Time and location
Tuesday, 12-14, room 0.21, Ludwigstraße 31
Assessment
Term paper. Guidelines. Topics for term paper.
Program outline
(might be updated as the course proceeds)
23 Apr. Intro. The importance of conditionals. Ontic vs epistemic conditionals.
Material: slides; Adams 1970, Edgington 1995, Sec. 1.
Part I: ontic conditionals
30 Apr. The meta-linguistic theory; Lewis’s minimal change semantics.
Material: slides; Goodman 1947; Lewis 1973, Sec. 1.1-1.5
07 May. Selection functions; conditional logic VC.
Material: Lewis 1973, Sec. 1.6-1.8, 2.7, 6.1.
14 May. Stalnaker’s theory and conditional excluded middle.
Material: slides. Stalnaker 1968, 1980, Lewis 1973 sec. 3.4, Herzberger 1979.
21 May. Disjunctive antecedents.
Material: slides. Fine 1975, Alonso-Ovalle 2006, Ciardelli et al 2018 (Sec 1-3)
28 May. What is similarity?
Material: slides. Fine 1975; Tichy 1976; Lewis 1979; Veltman 2005 (Sec 2).
04 Jun. Causal modeling semantics
Material: Pearl 2000 (pp. 202-212), Briggs 2012
11 Jun. No class: university is closed.
18 Jun. Non-minimal change. Background semantics
Material: Ciardelli et al 2018, slides.
Optional additional material: Marti and Pinosio 2014, Santorio forthcoming
Part II: epistemic conditionals
25 Jun. Do conditionals have truth-conditions?
Material: Edgington 1986
02 Jul. The probabilistic theory of conditionals.
Material: Adams 1975, Edgington 1995
09 Jul. Or-to-if, import-export. Information semantics.
Material: Gillies 2004, Gillies 2009.
16 Jul. Class canceled!
23 Jul. Graded information semantics.
Material: Ciardelli 2019