Dorothy Edgington

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Dorothy Edgington

Philosophy

#1329

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#2456

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Logic

#821

World Rank

#1368

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Philosophy

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According to Wikipedia, Dorothy Margaret Doig Edgington FBA is a philosopher active in metaphysics and philosophical logic. She is particularly known for her work on the logic of conditionals and vagueness. Life and education Dorothy Edgington was born on 29 April 1941 to Edward Milne and his wife Rhoda née Blair. She attended St Leonards School before going to St Hilda's College, Oxford to read PPE. She obtained her BA in 1964, followed in 1967 by a BPhil at Nuffield College, Oxford.

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Dorothy Edgington's Published Works

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Vagueness by degrees (1997) (125)
The Paradox of Knowability (1985) (119)
Do conditionals have truth conditions (1986) (108)
Counterfactuals and the benefit of hindsight (2006) (78)
Matter-of-Fact Conditionals (1991) (75)
Factors that influence regeneration of the neuromuscular junction. (1980) (52)
What if ? Questions About Conditionals (2003) (52)
Validity, uncertainty and vagueness (1992) (48)
TWO KINDS OF POSSIBILITY (2004) (46)
I—The Presidential Address: Counterfactuals (2008) (34)
Possible knowledge of unknown truth (2010) (32)
Semantics, meta-semantics, and ontology: A critique of the method of truth in metaphysics (2008) (31)
Wright and Sainsbury on Higher-order Vagueness (1993) (31)
Calcium channels in the high resistivity axonal membrane of photoreceptors of the giant barnacle. (1979) (21)
Causation first: why causation is prior to counterfactuals (2011) (21)
Conditionals and the Ramsey Test (1995) (18)
Properties of tetraethylammonium ion-resistant K+ channels in the photoreceptor membrane of the giant barnacle (1981) (16)
Lowe on Conditional Probability (1996) (15)
Truth, Objectivity, Counterfactuals and Gibbard (1997) (13)
CONDITIONALS, CAUSATION, AND DECISION (2011) (13)
Estimating Conditional Chances and Evaluating Counterfactuals (2014) (12)
THE PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM OF VAGUENESS (2001) (10)
Meaning, Bivalence and Realism (1981) (9)
General conditional statements: a response to Kölbel (2000) (8)
Conditionals, truth, and assertion (2009) (8)
Explanation, causation and laws (1990) (6)
Verificationism and the Manifestations of Meaning (1985) (5)
Mellor on Chance and Causation1 (1997) (5)
Ramsey's legacies on conditionals and truth (2005) (5)
X—Meaning, Bivalence and Realism (1981) (3)
Williamson on Vagueness, Identity and Leibniz’s Law (2002) (3)
The Pragmatics of the Logical Constants (2008) (3)
Sorensen on vagueness and contradiction (2010) (2)
Suppose and Tell: The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals (2021) (1)
Credence, Conditionals, Knowledge and Truth (2020) (1)
The Mystery of the Missing Boundary (2005) (1)
Counterfactual Conditionals (2020) (1)
THE APPLICABILITY OF BAYESIAN CONVERGENCE-OF-OPINION THEOREMS TO THE CASE OF ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC INFERENCE (1976) (1)
Edgington on Compounds of Conditionals MAX KÖLBEL (2000) (0)
The Concept of Probability by J. R. Lucas. (Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. viii + 220. £2.10.) (1972) (0)
Andrew Bacon: Vagueness and Thought (2019) (0)
The Physically Handicapped Child in Your Classroom: A Handbook for Teachers (1976) (0)
The current state of Analytic Philosophy in Europe ECAP 6: Sixth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (2009) (0)
Philosophy and Me (2021) (0)
A Commentary on ‘Necessity, Conditionals and Apriority’ (2022) (0)
Changing Beliefs Rationally: Some Puzzles (1992) (0)
Schiffer on Indeterminacy, Vagueness, and Conditionals (2016) (0)
Iterated attitudes. Commentary (1998) (0)
Estimating Conditional Chances and Evaluating Counterfactuals (2013) (0)
Compounds of conditionals, uncertainty, and indeterminacy (2020) (0)
The logic of uncertainty (1995) (0)

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