Plausible Worlds

Geoffrey (University of Cambridge) Hawthorn

Cambridge University Press, 1993

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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.

ISBN-13
9780521457767
ISBN-10
0521457769
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1993
Publication date
1993-11-18
Pages
208
Dimensions
143x216x16
Weight
280