# COUNTERFACTUALS & PROBABILITY C

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- Authors: [Schulz](https://www.bookquiver.com/schulz)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2017-02-02
- Genres: Philosophy

## Description

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.

## Editions

### COUNTERFACTUALS & PROBABILITY C

- Publisher: academia
- ISBN: 978-01-9878-595-8
- Pages: 248
- Published: 2017-02-02
- Language: en_US