Philosophy Talk. What Might Have Been

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Abstract: When we make claims about things that could have been what philosophers call counterfactual statements îwe are, in some sense, sliding between different worlds. We all use counterfactual statements frequently. But what would make our speculations about what might have been in a different scenario true or false? When I say things could have gone differently than they did, I am speaking of a possible world in which things did, in fact, go differently. But how do we make sense of this talk of possible worlds? How can there be facts other than facts about the actual world? John and Ken consider the possibilities with Laurie Paul from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, co-author of Causation: A User's Guide.

Type of resource	sound recording-nonmusical
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Extent	1 audio file
Place	KALW (Radio station : San Francisco, Calif.)California
Date created	June 9, 2012
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital
Track configuration	Stereo

philosophytalk.org show page	Title What Might Have Been
Finding Aid	Title Philosophy Talk (SC1118)
Show#	285.0
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/pm759kp6987
Location	SC1118
Repository	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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