Counterfactuals

Counterfactuals play a key role in philosophy, linguistics, psychology, decision theory, game theory, artificial intelligence, and many other related fields. Our goal for this course is to cover foundational work on counterfactuals (with some attention paid to indicative conditionals as well). Though our reading list has a historical component, its primary purpose is to familiarize students with contemporary state of play. We will focus on distinctions and applications that have become an essential part of the working philosopher’s toolkit.