This edited book examines conditionals from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on research from fields as diverse as linguistics, psychology, philosophy and logic. Across 13 chapters, the authors not only investigate and examine various commonly-held perceptions about conditionals, but they also challenge many of the assumptions underpinning current conditionals scholarship, setting an agenda for future research. Based in part on the papers presented at a unique international summer school - Conditionals in Paris - this volume represents the cutting edge in the study of conditionals, and it will be of interest to scholars in fields including linguistics and psychology, semiotics, philosophy and logic, and artificial intelligence. Stefan Kaufmann is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut, USA. David Over is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychology of Durham University, UK. Ghanshyam Sharma is Professor of Hindi at INALCO, Paris, France.

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Stefan Kaufmann is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut, USA. David Over is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychology of Durham University, UK. Ghanshyam Sharma is Professor of Hindi at INALCO, Paris, France.

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Chapter 1 Stefan Kaufmann, David Over and Ghanshyam Sharma, Introduction.- Chapter 2 Dorothy Edgington, Counterfactuals, indeterminacy and probability.- Chapter 3 Igor Douven and Shira Elqayam, Inferentialism: Progress and open questions.- Chapter 4 Michal Sikorski, Re-thinking the acceptability and the probability of indicative conditionals.- Chapter 5 Niki Pfeifer, Logic and pragmatics of uncertain conditionals: a mental probability logical perspective.- Chapter 6 Paul Egré, Jan Sprenger and Lorenzo Rossi, Gibbardian collapse and trivalent conditionals.- Chapter 7 David Over and Nicole Cruz, The psychology of counterfactual reasoning.- Chapter 8 Fabrizio Cariani and Lace Rips, Experimenting with (conditional) perfection.- Chapter 9 Stefan Kaufmann, How fake is fake Past?.- Chapter 10 John Mackay, Should past-as-modal theorists also be past-as-past theorists?.- Chapter 11 Maribel Romero and Eva Csipak, Counterfactual biscuit conditionals: Competition in the tense and mood domain.- Chapter 12 Bridget Copley, The heterogeneity of conditional meaning comes from the heterogeneity of prejacent meaning and attachment.- Chapter 13 Liliane Haegeman, Revisiting the typology of conditional clauses.- Chapter 14 Ghanshyam Sharma, Towards a uniform typology of conditional clauses.