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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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Counterfactuals in wonderland [PDF]
Games and Economic Behavior, 1997 The literary source of the main ideas in Aumann's article ``Backward Induction and Common Knowledge of Rationality" is exposed and analyzed. The primordial archetypal images that underlie both this literary source and Aumann's work are delineated and are used to explain the great emotive impact that this work had on the community of game theorists.
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Causal counterfactuals are not interventionist counterfactuals
Synthese, 2016zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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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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Journal of Logic and Computation, 1998
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2001
Primary goal of this paper is to show that counterfactual reasoning, as many other kinds of common sense reasoning, can be studied and analyzed through what we can call a cognitive approach, that represents knowledge as structured and partitioned into different domains, everyone of which has a specific theory, but can exchange data and information with
Ferrario, Roberta
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Primary goal of this paper is to show that counterfactual reasoning, as many other kinds of common sense reasoning, can be studied and analyzed through what we can call a cognitive approach, that represents knowledge as structured and partitioned into different domains, everyone of which has a specific theory, but can exchange data and information with
Ferrario, Roberta
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Probabilities of Counterfactuals Are Counterfactual Probabilities
The Journal of PhilosophySuppose that, yesterday at noon, Maria considered flipping a fair coin but didn’t. What probability do you assign to “If Maria had flipped the coin, the coin would have landed heads"? Now suppose that, contrary to fact, Maria did indeed flip the coin. In that counterfactual scenario, what is the probability of “The coin will land tails"?
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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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2005
In this paper we pursue two targets. First, showing that counterfactual computation can be rigorously formalised as a quantum computation. Second, presenting a new counterfactual protocol which improve previous protocols. Counterfactual computation makes use of quantum mechanics’ peculiarities to infer the outcome of a quantum computation without ...
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In this paper we pursue two targets. First, showing that counterfactual computation can be rigorously formalised as a quantum computation. Second, presenting a new counterfactual protocol which improve previous protocols. Counterfactual computation makes use of quantum mechanics’ peculiarities to infer the outcome of a quantum computation without ...
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