Milan Cirkovic
Biographic Data
| ID | 11025778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Milan Cirkovic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Milan |
| FAMILY NAME | Cirkovic |
| SIGNATURE | CIRKOVIC M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade + Oxford University, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Counterfactuals and unphysical ceteris paribus
I reconsider a type of counterfactual argument often used in historical sciences on a recent widely discussed example of the so-called ?rare Earth? hypothesis in planetary sciences and astrobiology. The argument is based on the alleged ?rarity? of some crucial ingredient for the planetary habitability, which is, in Earth?s case, provided by contingent evolutionary development. For instance, the claim that a contingent fact of history which has cr…
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Counterfactuals and unphysical ceteris paribus
I reconsider a type of counterfactual argument often used in historical sciences on a recent widely discussed example of the so-called ?rare Earth? hypothesis in planetary sciences and astrobiology. The argument is based on the alleged ?rarity? of some crucial ingredient for the planetary habitability, which is, in Earth?s case, provided by contingent evolutionary development. For instance, the claim that a contingent fact of history which has cr…
Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Counterfactual conditional (1 work) · Counterfactual thinking (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Fallacy (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Philosophy and History of Science (1 work)