Conditionals and Conditionalization

While it strikes most as obvious that there exist close conceptual connections between conditionals and conditionalization, it is far  less obvious what these connections precisely are. The aim of the  workshop is to investigate these connections from an interdisciplinary  perspective, drawing on recent work in philosophy and experimental  psychology. The time is ripe for such an approach, given that both  linguists and psychologists working on conditionals are increasingly  turning to the probabilistic theories of conditionals that philosophers  have been developing over the past forty years or so. On the other  hand, various philosophical claims have been made about conditionals  – in particular concerning their semantics and pragmatics – apparently  on no other basis than the linguistic intuitions of the philosophers  making these claims. It would be interesting, and from a methodological  perspective desirable, to subject these claims to more rigorous testing,  which is where experimental psychologists could help (and, to some extent, have already helped).

Invited speakers:

• Jean-François Bonnefon (Toulouse)
• Richard Bradley (LSE)
• John Cantwell (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
• Shira Elqayam (De Monfort University, Leicester)
• Alan Hájek (ANU)
• James Hawthorne (Oklahoma)
• Peter Milne (Stirling)
• David Over (Durham)
• Niki Pfeifer (Salzburg)
• Gerhard Schurz (Duesseldorf)
• Sara Verbrugge (KU Leuven)
• Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto)