Plausible Worlds : Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences

Name: Plausible Worlds
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521457767
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ISBN: 9780521457767

by Geoffrey Hawthorn

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0521457769

ISBN-13 9780521457767

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 18th, 1993

Print length 208 Pages

Weight 280 grams

Dimensions 14.30 x 21.60 x 1.60 cms

Product Classification: History: theory & methods Social & political philosophy History: theory and methods Social and political philosophy

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This widely acclaimed account of the role of counterfactuals in explanation deploys extended examples from both history and modern times. Its conclusions cast doubt on existing assumptions about the nature and place of theory, and indeed of the possibility of knowledge itself, in the human sciences.

Possibilities haunt history. The force of our explanations of events turns on the alternative possibilities these explanations suggest. It is these possible worlds which give us our understanding; and in human affairs we decide them by practical rather than theoretical judgement. In his widely acclaimed account of the role of counterfactuals in explanation, Geoffrey Hawthorn deploys extended examples from history and modern times to defend his argument. His conclusions cast doubt on existing assumptions about the nature and place of theory, and indeed of the possibility of knowledge itself, in the human sciences.

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