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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Problem of Counterfactuals
David Lewis introduced this notion of similar worlds, right? Like, how do you compare one world to another? And I still don't know what that's supposed to mean. So the idea of talking about counterfactuals among philosophers, well, it goes way back. David Hume characterized causation in terms ofcounterfactuals. But there wasn't a really focused discussion of it until Nelson Goodman in the late 40s.
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