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Counterfactuals

- Paths of the Might have Been
Af: Christopher Prendergast Engelsk Paperback

Counterfactuals

- Paths of the Might have Been
Af: Christopher Prendergast Engelsk Paperback
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What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. 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?). This is the sort of thing that can give counterfactuals a bad name, as inhabitants of a La La Land of the mind. 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. 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 limit, as the wish not to have been born.

Christopher Prendergast take us on a dizzying exploratory journey through some of these intellectual and human landscapes, mobilizing a wide range of reference from antiquity to the present, and sustained by the belief that, whether as help or hindrance, and with many variations across cultures, counterfactual thinking and imagining are fundamental to what it is to be human.

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What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. 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?). This is the sort of thing that can give counterfactuals a bad name, as inhabitants of a La La Land of the mind. 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. 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 limit, as the wish not to have been born.

Christopher Prendergast take us on a dizzying exploratory journey through some of these intellectual and human landscapes, mobilizing a wide range of reference from antiquity to the present, and sustained by the belief that, whether as help or hindrance, and with many variations across cultures, counterfactual thinking and imagining are fundamental to what it is to be human.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9781350090095
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1350090093
Kategori: Filosofi: epistemologi og vidensteori
Udg. Dato: 4 apr 2019
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 214mm
Højde: 138mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 4 apr 2019
Forfatter(e): Christopher Prendergast
Forfatter(e) Christopher Prendergast

Kategori Filosofi: epistemologi og vidensteori

ISBN-13 9781350090095

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 272

Udgave

Længde 26mm

Bredde 214mm

Højde 138mm

Udg. Dato 4 apr 2019

Oplagsdato 4 apr 2019

Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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