Counterfactual Conditionals

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The current study takes on the task of focussing on Habermas’ long and productive first phase in the 1960s and 1970s. The book begins with Habermas’ analyses of students’ political consciousness and of public opinion, before examining his close dialogue with Marcuse and the vanguard of the student movement. The study then focuses on Habermas’ works on the reality and contradictions of the late capitalist Knowledge and Human Interests , Legitimation Crisis and Theory and Practice . In doing so, the volume revisits important moments in the first three decades of Habermas’ research and teaching in order to reconstruct a theory that contributes to a praxis of fundamental, grass-roots change.Table of ContentsContents Counterfactual Conditionals in the Philosophy of Language1. The Basics1.1. Goodman and the Problem of Cotenability1.2. Minimal Difference/Divergence/ The Stalnaker–Lewis Semantics1.2.1. Stalnaker1.2.2. Sobel and Lewis1.2.3. Orthodoxy à la Kratzer2. Challenges to Orthodoxy2.1. Logics2.2. Challenging Truth– Gibbard Cases2.3. Probabilities2.3.1. Proposals in the Literature2.3.1.1. Schulz’s Arbitrariness Account2.3.1.2. Barnett’s Suppositional Account2.3.2. A New Non–Maximality2.4 Problems with Similarity2.4.1. Morgenbesser Case2.4.2. World Convergence Made The Future Similarity Objection2.4.2.1 Elga Worlds2.4.2.2 Bennett Worlds2.5. Typicality2.6. Will and Were3. ConclusionLiterature