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Scientific counterfactuals as make-believe
Counterfactuals abound in science, especially when reasoning about and with models. This often requires entertaining counterfactual conditionals with nomologically or metaphysically impossible antecedents, namely, counternomics or counterpossibles. In this paper I defend the make-believe view of sci...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9649460/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36397838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03949-8 |