Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences by Geoffrey Hawthorn

Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences

Geoffrey Hawthorn

206 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative medium-paced
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Possibilities haunt history. The force of our explanations of events turns on the alternative possibilities those explanations suggest. It is these possible worlds that give us our understanding; and in human affairs, we decide them by practical r...

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