Knowledge and Conditionals
Robert C. Stalnaker presents a set of essays on the structure of inquiry. First he focuses on the concepts of knowledge, belief, and partial belief, and on the rules and procedures we ought to use to determine what to believe. Then he explores the relations between conditionals and causal and explanatory concepts.
Robert Stalnaker received his PhD in philosophy at Princeton University in 1965, and subsequently taught philosophy over the next fifty years at Yale University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cornell University, and MIT. He is the author of four books: Inquiry (MIT Press 1984), Our Knowledge of the Internal World (Oxford 2007), Mere Possibilities (Princeton 2012), and Context (Oxford 2015), as well as two previous collections of papers: Context and Content (Oxford 1999) and Ways a World Might Be (Oxford 2003). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.
Robert C. Stalnaker presents a set of essays on the structure of inquiry. First he focuses on the concepts of knowledge, belief, and partial belief, and on the rules and procedures we ought to use to determine what to believe. Then he explores the relations between conditionals and causal and explanatory concepts.