Biezma and Goebel (2023): Being pragmatic about biscuits.

Maria Biezma‘s paper on biscuit conditionals, co-authored with Arno Goebel, has appeared in Linguistics and Philosophy. The link to the UMass library pdf is below:

https://link-springer-com.silk.library.umass.edu/article/10.1007/s10988-022-09368-9

Abstract (preview)

In this paper we argue for a unified semantics for hypothetical conditionals, HCs, e.g. if it rains, we’ll cancel the picnic, and biscuit conditionals, BCs, e.g., if you are hungry, there are biscuits on the sideboard. We side with recent literature in proposing that differences in the interpretation are related to (in)dependence between antecedent and consequent, but we move beyond current accounts in spelling out a characterization of independence that is actually predictive. (…)