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

by Geoffrey Hawthorn
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780521457767
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 208
  • Original Price: USD 55.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Item Weight: 282 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historiography

Possibilities haunt history. The force of our explanations of events turns on the alternative possibilities those explanations suggest. It is these possible worlds that give us our understanding; and in human affairs, we decide them by practical rather than theoretical judgment. In this widely acclaimed account of the role of counterfactuals in explanation, Geoffrey Hawthorn deploys extended examples 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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