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COUNTERFACTUALS IN HISTORIOGRAPHY
Problemos, 1998 The article exposes (in brief) the theories of the counterfactuals in analytical philosophy (metalinguistic, ontological and suppositionist) and discusses the conditions of assertability of counterfactuals in historiography.
Zenonas Norkus
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Self-referent upward counterfactuals and depression: Examining regret as a mediator
Cogent Psychology, 2018 Previous research has found that self-referent upward counterfactuals are associated with depression. However, empirical evidence regarding the way self-referent upward counterfactuals exert their influence on depression remains scarce.
Anne Gene Broomhall +2 more
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Consilience in Causation: Causal Emergence Is Found Across Measures of Causation [PDF]
EntropyCausation is fundamentally important to science, and yet our understanding of causation is spread out across disparate fields, with different measures of causation having been proposed in philosophy, statistics, psychology, and other areas.
Renzo Comolatti, Erik Hoel
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Physical and Metaphysical Counterfactuals: Evaluating Disjunctive Actions
Journal of Causal Inference, 2017 The structural interpretation of counterfactuals as formulated in Balke and Pearl (1994a,b) [1, 2] excludes disjunctive conditionals, such as “had X$X$ been x1 or x2$x_1~\mbox{or}~x_2$,” as well as disjunctive actions such as do(X=x1 or X=x2)$do(X=x_1 ...
Judea Pearl
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Uncertainty of Counterfactuals in Deep Learning
Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2021 Counterfactuals have become a useful tool for explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). Counterfactuals provide various perturbations to a data instance to yield an alternate classification from a machine learning model.
Katherine Elizabeth Brown +2 more
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Facts in counterfactuals-cognitive representations of Chinese counterfactuals
Scientific Reports, 2023 How do people represent counterfactuals? As languages differ in expressibility of counterfactuals—some languages employ explicit grammatical marking for counterfactuals while others do not—are some speakers’ representations of counterfactuals less ...
Yufei Ren, Gang Cui, Stella Christie
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On God’s Knowledge of Counterfactuals of Freedom [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2021 To answer the problem of incompatibility between divine providence and creaturely freedom, Molinism suggests the theory of middle knowledge, a theory that claims by assuming God’s knowledge of counterfactuals of freedom, we can resolve the problem ...
Farid al-Din Sebt +3 more
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A Methodological Inquiry on Compatibility of Droysen’s Understanding and Weber’s Counterfactuals
Наукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2022 Gustav Droysen introduced understanding as the method of history. Max Weber analyzed what-if statements or counterfactuals as a form of causal explanation. Both scholars had a common interest in understanding and explanation.
Mykola Bakaiev
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COUNTERFACTUAL ANALYSIS BY ALGORITHMIC COMPLEXITY: A METRIC BETWEEN POSSIBLE WORLDS
Manuscrito, 2022 Counterfactuals have become an important area of interdisciplinary interest, especially in logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, psychology, decision theory, and even artificial intelligence.
NICHOLAS CORRÊA +1 more
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Determinism, Counterfactuals, and the Possibility of Time Travel
Philosophies, 2023 The Consequence argument is an argument from plausible premises–our lack of causal power over the laws and past–to an implausible conclusion: that if determinism is true, we are equally powerless with respect to the future.
Kadri Vihvelin
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