COUNTERFACTUALS & PROBABILITY C

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-878595-8
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schulz

Schulz, Moritz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- 2: The Problem of Evaluating Counterfactuals

- 3: Counterfactual Chances

- 4: A Puzzle About Counterfactuals

- 5: Restriction and Modification

- 6: Counterfactuals and Arbitrariness

- 7: Applications

- 8: Triviality

- 9: Concluding Remarks

Über Autor(innen)

Moritz Schulz studied Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Hamburg before completing a BPhil at Oxford University. Shultz received his PhD from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2011. Since then, he completed a post-doc at the University of Barcelona and acted as an assistant at the University of Tübingen before taking up his current role as junior professor at the University of Hamburg.