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Moritz Schulz explores counterfactual thought and language: what would have happened if things had gone a different way. Counterfactual questions may concern large scale derivations (what would have happened if Nixon had launched a nuclear attack) or small scale evaluations of minor derivations (what would have happened if I had decided to join a different profession). A common impression, which receives a thorough defence in the book, is that oftentimes we find it impossible to know what would have happened. However, this does not mean that we are completely at a loss: we are typically capable of evaluating counterfactual questions probabilistically: we can say what would have been likely or unlikely to happen.
Schulz describes these probabilistic ways of evaluating counterfactual questions and turns the data into a novel account of the workings of counterfactual thought.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780198785958
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-19-878595-8
- Verlag: ACADEMIC
- Erscheinungstermin: 02.02.2017
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2017
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 448 g
- Seiten: 248
- Format (B x H x T): 145 x 222 x 17 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt