They were also asked, “do you think learning about counterfactuals has been helpful in understanding how political change could be achieved in the context of economic inequality?” Twelve of 13 ...

Counterfactuals are treated as law-like conditionals with de re predication over particular facts. Similarity with respect to particular facts is ensured by the semantics of tense in interaction with ...

Counterfactuals help us recognize the contingent nature of many political outcomes, probe the causes and contingency of these outcomes and evaluate them by imagining other outcomes and their ...

Counterfactuals sometimes appear when they're not needed; they can also fail to appear when they would be most useful. This week on Hidden Brain, we look at why some events prompt these "What if?" ...

Joe Biden’s team, applying lessons learnt from the weak policy response to the 2008-09 financial crisis, decided it was better to provide too much stimulus than too little. The communication ...