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Struggling With Conditionals*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Bryson Brown
Bryson Brown
Affiliation:
University of Lethbridge
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Extract

David Sanford's If P, Then Q is an ambitious book, aimed at two difficult tasks and addressed to two audiences. It combines a survey of historical and contemporary work on-conditionals with a presentation-of, Sanford's personal views. And it is addressed to both undergraduate students, without, logical training, and professionals seriously interested in conditionals. It is marred by the impossibility of achieving both aims in a book this size, and by the strains of simultaneously addressing audiences with such different needs and interests.

Type
Critical Notices/Études critiques
Information
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , Spring 1992 , pp. 327 - 332
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1992

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Notes

1 See Adams, E., “Modus Tollens Revisited,” Analysis, 48, 3 (June 1988): 122–28CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and McGee, V., “A Counter-Example to Modus Ponens,” Journal of Philosophy, 82, 9 (September 1985): 462–71CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 See Sinnot-Armstrong, W., Moor, J. and Fogelin, R., “A Defense of Modus Ponens,” Journal of Philosophy, 83, 5 (May 1986): 298–99CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Sinnot-Armstrong, W., Moor, J. and Fogelin, R., “A Defense of Modus Tollens,” Analysis, 50, 1 (January 1989): 9–16, for a multi-factor, Philonian approach to some problem casesCrossRefGoogle Scholar.