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

Hawthorn, Geoffrey

 
9780521457767: Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521457769 ISBN 13: 9780521457767
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Examples through history used to examine the role of possible worlds in explanation and practical judgements.

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Review

'Hawthorn's Plausible Worlds is not only a good read, filled with all sorts of fascinating information, but a book that raises very large and interesting questions about the nature of explanation in the human sciences. I found his answers to the questions persuasive.' Richard Rorty

'This volume is a marvelously stimulating and thought provoking work. It ought to be on the reading lists of advanced courses on both the theory and the methodology of history writing.' Allan Megill, The American Historical Review

Book Description

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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521457769
ISBN 13 
9780521457767
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
206