We are pleased to announce a new publication in EuJAP! In their paper “Revisiting McGee’s Counterexample to Modus Ponens”, Nicolás Lo Guercio (UBA/IIF-SADAF-CONICET) and Mariela Rubin (UBA/IIF-SADAF-CONICET) critically examine McGee’s (1985) alleged counterexample to Modus Ponens for indicative conditionals. They argue that pragmatic factors—ambiguity in indefinite phrases and ignorance inferences—distort intuitions about the inference’s acceptability, rather than challenging its validity.
The paper can be accessed at this link: https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/466721 or downloaded directly here.
Reference
McGee, Van. 1985. “A Counterexample to Modus Ponens.” The Journal of Philosophy, 82 (9): 462–471.