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Chapter 7 - Whither Counterfactuals?
from Part II - Causation and Mechanism
Stavros Ioannidis, University of Athens, Greece, Stathis Psillos, University of Athens, Greece
Book:

Mechanisms in Science

Published online:

09 June 2022

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23 June 2022, pp 164-190
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Given the centrality of counterfactual difference-making relations to the argument of the book, in Chapter 7 we say a few more things about contrary-to-fact conditionals. We offer a primer on the logic and the semantics of counterfactuals, focusing on the two main schools of thought: the metalinguistic and the possible-worlds approach. We also present and examine James Woodward’s interventionist counterfactuals and the Rubin-Holland model. We argue that the counterfactual approach is more basic than the mechanistic, but information about mechanisms can help sort out some of the methodological problems faced by the counterfactual account.