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Dorothy Edgington’s work has been at the centre of a range of ongoing debates in philosophical logic, philosophy of mind and language, metaphysics, and epistemology. This work has focused, although by no means exclusively, on the overlapping areas of conditionals, probability, and paradox. This brief introduction outlines some themes from these three areas relevant to Edgington’s work, highlighting how some of her work and some of the contributions of this volume fit into these debates. Edgington’s work far outstrips these three topics and her contributions to the three debates mentioned are more numerous and offer more insight than can be discussed here. Nevertheless, from this brief overview, and from the essays contained in the rest of the volume, the ingenuity and breadth of Edgington’s work may be seen, as well as the difficulty of the problems that she has discussed, and how she has advanced our understanding of them. |
