Counteridenticals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10693801 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander W Kocurek (0000-0002-0912-1488, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 127 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 323-369 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00318108-6718783 |
| OpenAlex | W4255983949 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 51 |
A counteridentical is a counterfactual with an identity statement in the antecedent. While counteridenticals generally seem nontrivial, most semantic theories for counterfactuals, when combined with the necessity of identity and distinctness, attribute vacuous truth conditions to such counterfactuals. In light of this, one could try to save the orthodox theories either by appealing to pragmatics or by denying that the antecedents of alleged counteridenticals really contain identity claims. Or one could reject the orthodox theory of counterfactuals in favor of a hyperintensional semantics that accommodates nontrivial counterpossibles. In this article, I argue that none of these approaches can account for all the peculiar features of counteridenticals. Instead, I propose a modified version of Lewis's counterpart theory, which rejects the necessity of identity, and show that it can explain all the peculiar features of counteridenticals in a satisfactory way. I conclude by defending the plausibility of contingent identity from objections
Aesthetics · Analytic philosophy · Antecedent (behavioral psychology) · Contemporary philosophy · Counterfactual conditional · Counterfactual thinking · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of mind · Possible world · Pragmatics · Semantics (computer science) · Statement (logic) · Truth condition · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Philosophy of Philosophy
A Theory of Conditionals
Individuals
Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic
Impossible Worlds
Two notions of necessity
An investigation of the lumps of thought
Reference and Proper Names
Contingent identity
Free Choice and the Theory of Scalar Implicatures
Pragmatics
Modality and Explanatory Reasoning
Counterfactual attitudes and multi-centered worlds
A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals
Linguistics and natural logic
Remarks on counterpossibles
Attitudes De Dicto and De Se
Names Are Predicates
Variabilism
Possible Worlds and the Objective World
Counterparts of Persons and Their Bodies
The Metaphysics of Identity
Contingent Identity
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |