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Title: PLAUSIBLE WORLDS
POSSIBILITY AND UNDERSTANDING IN HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
By: Geoffrey Hawthorn
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0521457769
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 19 September, 1993
Pages: 208
Description: Examples through history used to examine the role of possible worlds in explanation and practical judgements.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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