Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might Have Been Prendergast ChristopherPaperback
Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might Have Been Prendergast ChristopherPaperback What are counterfactuals and what is their point? It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall…
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Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might Have Been Prendergast ChristopherPaperback
What are counterfactuals and what is their point? It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall over, but they do have tails and if they didn't they wouldn't be kangaroos (or would they?). In many cases, none at all.
On the other hand, counterfactuals do useful service across a broad range of disciplines in both the sciences and the humanities, including philosophy, history, cosmology, biology, cognitive psychology, jurisprudence, economics, art history, literary theory. This is the sort of thing that can give counterfactuals a bad name, as inhabitants of a La La Land of the mind. They are also richly, albeit sometimes treacherously, present in the everyday human realm of how our lives are both imagined and lived: in the 'crossroads' scenario of decision-making, the place of regret in retrospective assessments of paths taken and not taken, and, at the outer
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