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Counterfactual Contamination [PDF]
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2021 Many defend the thesis that when someone knows p, they couldn’t easily have been wrong about p. But the notion of easy possibility in play is relatively under-theorized. One structural idea in the literature, the principle of Counterfactual Closure (CC), connects easy possibility with counterfactuals: if it easily could have happened that p, and if p ...
Simon Goldstein, John Hawthorne
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Counterfactual Desirability [PDF]
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2017 The desirability of what actually occurs is often influenced by what could have been. Preferences based on such value dependencies between actual and counterfactual outcomes generate a class of problems for orthodox decision theory, the best-known perhaps being the so-called Allais paradox.
Bradley, Richard, Stefánsson, H. Orri
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EQUILIBRIUM COUNTERFACTUALS [PDF]
International Economic Review, 2019 AbstractWe incorporate structural modelers into the economy they model. Using traditional moment matching, they treat policy changes as zero probability (or exogenous) “counterfactuals.” Bias occurs since real‐world agents understand policy changes are positive probability events guided by modelers. Downward, upward, or sign bias occurs.
Gilles Chemla, Christopher Hennessy
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Counterfactual computation [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2001 Suppose that we are given a quantum computer programmed ready to perform a computation if it is switched on. Counterfactual computation is a process by which the result of the computation may be learnt without actually running the computer. Such processes are possible within quantum physics and to achieve this effect, a computer embodying the ...
Mitchison, Graeme, Jozsa, Richard
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Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1975 The inclusion of the formulae \((A > B) \vee (A> -B)\) and \((A \& B) \supset(A> B)\) as theorems of conditional sentential calculi is criticised and reasons are offered for including \(\square(A\supset B)\supset . (B> C) \supset . \diamond (A \& C) \supset .(A> C)\) as a theorem in such calculi.
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Counterfactuality of ‘counterfactual’ communication [PDF]
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2014 Critical analysis of arXiv:1206.2042 and Phys. Rev. A 89, 052334. Revised according to comments of several referees, accepted for publication in J.
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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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, 2015 We study a generalization of the treatment effect model in which an observed discrete classifier indicates in which one of a set of counterfactual processes a decision maker is observed. The other observed outcomes are delivered by the particular counterfactual process in which the decision maker is found.
Andrew Chesher, Adam Rosen
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Consistent Quantum Counterfactuals [PDF]
, 1999 An analysis using classical stochastic processes is used to construct a consistent system of quantum counterfactual reasoning. When applied to a counterfactual version of Hardy's paradox, it shows that the probabilistic character of quantum reasoning ...
B. d’Espagnat +18 more
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Counterfactual: An R Package for Counterfactual Analysis [PDF]
The R Journal, 2017 15 pages, 4 ...
Chen, Mingli +3 more
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