{"id":11398,"date":"2018-09-24T06:12:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T10:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11398"},"modified":"2018-09-22T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T21:00:37","slug":"lingphil-reading-group-924-on-rothschild-and-spectre-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/09\/24\/lingphil-reading-group-924-on-rothschild-and-spectre-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"LingPhil Reading Group 9\/24 - on Rothschild and Spectre (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Nathaniel Schwartz<\/em> will be presenting a very recent paper by <strong>Rothschild and Spectre (2016)<\/strong> on knowing conditionals. The meeting will take place on Monday 24th\u00a0 in the 8th floor seminar room, i.e. the usual time &amp; place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title : <\/strong>A Puzzle about Knowing Conditionals<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors : <\/strong>Daniel Rothschild and Levi Spectre<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We present a puzzle about knowledge, probability and conditionals. We show that in certain cases some basic and plausible principles governing our reasoning come into conflict. In particular, we show that there is a simple argument that a person may be in a position to know a conditional the consequent of which has a low probability conditional on its antecedent, contra Adams\u0092 thesis. We suggest that the puzzle motivates a very strong restriction on the inference of a conditional from a disjunction.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathaniel Schwartz will be presenting a very recent paper by Rothschild and Spectre (2016) on knowing conditionals. The meeting will take place on Monday 24th\u00a0 in the 8th floor seminar room, i.e. the usual time &amp; place. Title : A Puzzle about Knowing Conditionals Authors : Daniel Rothschild and Levi Spectre Abstract : We present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11399,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions\/11399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}