eprintid: 19674
rev_number: 40
eprint_status: archive
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dir: disk0/00/01/96/74
datestamp: 2015-10-21 13:29:28
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type: bookPart
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creators_name: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
title: Editorial: Unpredictability, Contingency and Counterfactuals
title_de: Unvorhersehbarkeit, Kontingenz und das Kontrafaktische
subjects: ddc-900
divisions: i-72020
keywords: contingency, counterfactual thinking
cterms_swd: Kontingenz
cterms_swd: Kontrafaktizität
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?
date: 2009
publisher: Center for Historical Social Research
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00019674
ppn_swb: 1658801768
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-196740
language: eng
bibsort: WENZLHUEMEEDITORIALU2009
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Köln
pagerange: 9-15
book_title: Counterfactual Thinking as a Scientific Method. Special Issue of Historical Social Research
editors_name: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
citation:   Wenzlhuemer, Roland  (2009) Editorial: Unpredictability, Contingency and Counterfactuals.  [Book Section]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19674/1/Wenzlhuemer_editorial_unpredictability_contingency_2009.pdf