Conditionals has at its center an extended essay on this
problematic and much-debated subject in the philosophy of
language and logic, which the widely respected Oxford
philosopher Michael Woods had been preparing for publication at
the time of his death in 1993. It appears here edited by his
eminent colleague David Wiggins, and is accompanied by a
commentary specially written by a leading expert on the topic,
Dorothy Edgington. This masterly and original treatment of
conditionals will demand the attention (...) of all philosophers
working in this area. (shrink) This is an examination of
similarities and differences between two recent models of
abductive reasoning. The one is developed in Atocha Aliseda’s
Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into the Processes
of Discovery and Evaluation (2006). The other is advanced by Dov
Gabbay and the present author in their The Reach of Abduction:
Insight and Trial (2005). A principal difference between the two
approaches is that in the Gabbay-Woods model, but not