Knowledge of counterfactuals

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• Tim Williamson (University of Oxford)
• Friday 01 June 2007, 15:00-16:30
• Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

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The talk will begin with some brief comments on the cognitive value to us of thinking in terms of counterfactual conditionals, including their use in inference to the best explanation. Accounts of their epistemology in terms of reasoning and simulation will then be considered. Finally, a moral will be drawn for the distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge.

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