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Dorothy Margaret Doig Edgington FBA (née Milne, born 29 April 1941) is a philosopher active in metaphysics and philosophical logic.〔EDGINGTON, Prof. Dorothy Margaret Doig’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011; online edn, Nov 2011 (accessed 25 Jan 2012 )〕 She was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2006, where she was also a professor from 1996 to 2001. Before moving to Oxford, Edgington taught for many years at Birkbeck College, London,〔 and now teaches there again〔 part-time. From 2007-2008 she was President of the Aristotelian Society. She is especially well known for her work on the logic of conditionals and vagueness.〔 Birkbeck College now hosts a lecture series named after Edgington; in 2012, the lectures were given by John McDowell and in 2014 they were given by Rae Langton.〔http://edgington-lectures.blogspot.com/p/previous-lectures.html〕 == Articles == * ''The Paradox of Knowability'' (1985), Mind 94:557-568. Presents a resolution of Fitch's paradox based on situation semantics. * ''On Conditionals'' (1995), Mind 104:235-329. Defends an epistemic theory of conditionals against a truth-functional one, as part of the Mind's state of the art series. * ''(Conditionals )'' (2006), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dorothy Edgington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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