I’ve managed to dig out from under the zillion job files long enough to finally finish a draft of a paper on counterfactuals. The paper is mostly about two kinds of stretches of counterfactual-talk:

If Sophie had gone to the parade, should have seen Pedro dance; but of course
if Sophie had gone to the parade and been stuck behind someone tall, she wouldn’t have seen Pedro dance.

and

If If Sophie had gone to the parade, should have seen Pedro dance; but of course
if Sophie had gone to the parade, then she might have been stuck behind someone tall — and so she wouldn’t have seen Pedro dance.

Each sequence is consistent, but their ugly cousins got by reversing the order of the conjuncts aren’t. That’s a puzzle for just about everyone…except me. Or so I argue.

Anyway, here is the paper. The thing I like most about it is that the letters H-e-g-e-l occur, in that order, quite a lot in it. You might think I lost some kind of bet with someone; but I didn’t.