Goodman and Parry on counterfactuals

• Autores: Oswaldo Chateaubriand
• Localización: Principia: an international journal of epistemology, ISSN-e 1808-1711, Vol. 15, Nº. 3, 2011, págs. 383-397
• Idioma: inglés
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  • português

    O artigo de Goodman "The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals" teve um papel central no debate relativo a análise adequada dos condicionais contrafactuais. A seguir examinarei o artigo de Goodman em detalhe e discutirei algumas objeções e sugestões de Parry em seu artigo "A Reexamination of the Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals". Restringirei minha discussão ao "problema das condições relevantes", assim denominado por Goodman, que é o tema principal das críticas de Parry e que considero ser o problema principal para a abordagem de Goodman.

  • English

    Goodman's paper "The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals" played a central role in the debate concerning the proper analysis of counterfactual conditionals. In what follows I examine Goodman's paper in detail and discuss objections and suggestions by Parry in his "Reexamination of the Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals". I restrict my discussion to what Goodman termed "the problem of relevant conditions", which is the main subject of Parry's criticism, and which I also consider to be the central issue for Goodman's approach.