https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/434573
Title: | Counterfactual Reasoning and Explanatory Relations | Authors: | Deng, Duen-min | Keywords: | counterfactual reasoning; explanatory relations; possible world semantics; causal models; premise semantics | Issue Date: | 2018 | Publisher: | INST EUROPEAN & AMER STUDIES | Journal Volume: | 48 | Journal Issue: | 4 | Start page/Pages: | 549 | Source: | EURAMERICA | Abstract: | There is an intimate connection between "counterfactual reasoning" and "explanatory relations." On the one hand, "counterfactual reasoning" plays a crucial role in helping us establish certain explanatory relations, as it is widely acknowledged that explanatory relations have counterfactual implications, by which we may test whether a given explanatory relation holds. On the other hand, explanatory relations also play a crucial role in our counterfactual reasoning. This, however, is comparatively less discussed in the literature, and it is the aim of this paper to explicate it more clearly, with a special focus on the role of explanatory relations in our understanding of counterfactual conditionals. I shall examine the alleged connection through the main semantic frameworks for counterfactual conditionals, including the possible world semantics, causal models, and the premise semantics. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/434573 | ISSN: | 1021-3058 |
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