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Room P3.10, Mathematics Building
Filomena Mendes, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
A substatiation approach to conditionals
The question addressed in this talk is that of finding the truth value of a given conditional statement. The speaker finds the answers found in Classical Logic, the strict conditional and Stalnaker’s Theory of Conditionals to be unsatisfactory and proposes a new approach to the problem, which allows for the assessment of the truth value of both indicative and counterfactual conditionals and is based on the provision of an argument that links the consequent and antecedent.