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A Counterfactual Theory of Counterfactuals
Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 2023Abstract Jeremy M. Black has proposed criteria for a determining whether a counterfactual is helpful. This article raises questions about how we can have a counterfactual if we cannot agree what a historical fact is. The conceptualization of any particular so-called historical fact differs in the mind of each historian, so this article asks how can
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Annual Review of Psychology, 2016
People spontaneously create counterfactual alternatives to reality when they think “if only” or “what if” and imagine how the past could have been different. The mind computes counterfactuals for many reasons. Counterfactuals explain the past and prepare for the future, they implicate various relations including causal ones, and they affect intentions ...
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People spontaneously create counterfactual alternatives to reality when they think “if only” or “what if” and imagine how the past could have been different. The mind computes counterfactuals for many reasons. Counterfactuals explain the past and prepare for the future, they implicate various relations including causal ones, and they affect intentions ...
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, 2019 AbstractThis chapter explores counterfactual language understanding (e.g. If money grew on trees…), which requires false information to be accepted as temporarily true (and vice versa). First, counterfactual constructions are defined, then counterfactual reasoning strategies are reviewed, and understanding is linked to existing theories of language ...
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Counterfactuals, probabilistic counterfactuals and causation
Mind, 1999It seems to be generally accepted that (a) counterfactual conditionals are to be analysed in terms of possible worlds and inter-world relations of similarity and (b) causation is conceptually prior to counterfactuals. I argue here that both (a) and (b) are false.
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Causes, Counterfactuals, and Counterfactual History
Journal of the Philosophy of HistoryAbstract I argue that there are three different sorts of counterfactuals involved in causal investigation and counterfactual history and that these counterfactuals range from the relatively unproblematic to the hopelessly speculative. This threefold distinction undermines a central argument in support of counterfactual history and supports the critics’
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Abstract This chapter first discusses the use of intuitions in contemporary analytic philosophy. Then the text outlines an approach to philosophy that does not overly rely on intuitions: means-end philosophy. Next, the chapter presents the author’s view of possible worlds: modal idealism.
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