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Volume 44 • 1989 • Modalities and Counterfactuals in History and the Social Sciences

Editors: Tannelie Blom, Werner Callebaut & Ton Nijhuis

Articles


Modalities and Counterfactuals in History and the Social Sciences: Some Preliminary Reflections

  • Tannelie BLOM
  • Werner CALLEBAUT
  • Ton NIJHUIS

Volume 44 • 1989 • Modalities and Counterfactuals in History and the Social Sciences

Why do Social Scientists Tend to See the World as Over-Ordened?

  • Raymond BOUDON

Volume 44 • 1989 • Modalities and Counterfactuals in History and the Social Sciences

Contingency, Meaning and History

  • Tannelie BLOM
  • Ton NIJHUIS

Volume 44 • 1989 • Modalities and Counterfactuals in History and the Social Sciences

The Modal View of Economic Models

  • Steven RAPPAPORT

Volume 44 • 1989 • Modalities and Counterfactuals in History and the Social Sciences

Scientific Explanation, Necessity & Contingency

  • Erik WEBER

Volume 44 • 1989 • Modalities and Counterfactuals in History and the Social Sciences

Counterfactuals and Backward Induction

  • Christina BICCHIERI

Volume 44 • 1989 • Modalities and Counterfactuals in History and the Social Sciences

Information Processing: From a Mechanistic to a Natural Systems Approach. Why Connectionism is Compatible with the Idea of an Active Information Processor

  • Ingrid VAN CAMP

Volume 44 • 1989 • Modalities and Counterfactuals in History and the Social Sciences

Book Review


Cognitive Science, an Introduction. a Bradford Book, The MIT Press, 1987. Neil A. Stillings, Mark H. Feinstein, Jay L. Garfield, Edwina L. Rissland, David A. Rosenbaum, Steven E. Weisler & Lynne Baker-Hard

  • Marc Leman

Volume 44 • 1989 • Modalities and Counterfactuals in History and the Social Sciences

Incompleteness, Nonlocality, and Realism. Michael Redhead

  • Jean Paul VAN BENDEGEM

Volume 44 • 1989 • Modalities and Counterfactuals in History and the Social Sciences