What Should I Believe About What Would Have Been the Case?
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| 100 | 1 | |a Huber |D Franz |u Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Building 170 St. George Street, M5R 2M8, Toronto, ON, Canada |4 aut | |
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| 520 | 3 | |a The question I am addressing in this paper is the following: how is it possible to empirically test, or confirm, counterfactuals? After motivating this question in Section1, I will look at two approaches to counterfactuals, and at how counterfactuals can be empirically tested, or confirmed, if at all, on these accounts in Section2. I will then digress into the philosophy of probability in Section3. The reason for this digression is that I want to use the way observable absolute and relative frequencies, two empirical notions, are used to empirically test, or confirm, hypotheses about objective chances, a metaphysical notion, as a role-model. Specifically, I want to use this probabilistic account of the testing of chance hypotheses as a role-model for the account of the testing of counterfactuals, another metaphysical notion, that I will present in Sections 4 to 8. I will conclude by comparing my proposal to one non-probabilistic and one probabilistic alternative in Section9. | |
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