Philosophical Logic and Language

Pre-requisites: Undergraduate course Logic and master course Neoclassical logics.

Course objectives: Objectives: introduction to logical systems for counterfactual conditionals and their philosophical significance.

Course description: Overview of logics for counterfactual conditionals and, depending on the interests of students, the application of these conditionals in another area of philosophy (metaphysics or epistemology) and comparison with logics for other types of conditionals.

Learning Outcomes: Fulfillment of goals.

Literature/Reading:

• Lewis, David 1973 Counterfactuals, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
• Stalnaker, Robert 1984 Inquiry. Cambridge, Mass., Bradford Books, MIT Press
• Jonathan Bennett, A philosophical guide to conditionals, Oxford University Press 2003
• Hughes, G and Cresswell, M: A New Introduction to Modal Logic, Routledge 1996