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

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

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  • ISBN-13: 9780521403597
  • ISBN: 0521403596
  • Edition: 1
  • Publication Date: 1991
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

AUTHOR

Geoffrey Hawthorn

SUMMARY

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.Geoffrey Hawthorn is the author of 'Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences', published 1991 under ISBN 9780521403597 and ISBN 0521403596.

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