German Title: Unvorhersehbarkeit, Kontingenz und das Kontrafaktische
In: Wenzlhuemer, Roland (Hrsg.): Counterfactual Thinking as a Scientific Method. Special Issue of Historical Social Research. Köln, Center for Historical Social Research 2009, pp. 9-15
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Abstract
While it has always been present in our everyday-life practices, counterfactual thinking currently stages a comeback as a scientific method. Of late, a renewed interest in counterfactuals can be witnessed in academic disciplines that have traditionally been suspicious of studying events or processes that have never happened (and will never happen). Is it mere coincidence that an impressive number of unconnected initiatives have started to re-discuss counterfactual thinking at the same time? Or are we living through times that somehow foster such a renewed interest in unpredictability, contingency and counterfactuals?
Document type: | Book Section |
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Editor: | Wenzlhuemer, Roland |
Title of Book: | Counterfactual Thinking as a Scientific Method. Special Issue of Historical Social Research |
Publisher: | Center for Historical Social Research |
Place of Publication: | Köln |
Date Deposited: | 21 Oct 2015 13:29 |
Date: | 2009 |
Page Range: | pp. 9-15 |
Faculties / Institutes: | Philosophische Fakultät > Historisches Seminar |
DDC-classification: | 900 Geography and history |
Controlled Keywords: | Kontingenz, Kontrafaktizität |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | contingency, counterfactual thinking |