Counterfactuals and Probability (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2017
Authors:	Moritz Schulz
Dimensions:	223 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-878595-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Promotions
LSN:	0-19-878595-X
Barcode:	9780198785958

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