Motivating the Causal Modeling Semantics of Counterfactuals, or, Why We Should Favor the Causal Modeling Semantics over the Possible-Worlds Semantics

DOI10.1007/978-3-662-48357-2_5zbMath1429.03032OpenAlexW2306313322MaRDI QIDQ5213669

Kok Yong Lee

Publication date: 4 February 2020

Published in: Logic in Asia: Studia Logica Library (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48357-2_5

zbMATH Keywords

possible-worlds semanticsbacktrackinginterventioncausal modelcounterfactual conditionalcausal modeling semantics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Logics of knowledge and belief (including belief change) (03B42)

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