Explanation And Thought Experiments In History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4495336 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim De Mey (Ghent University Hospital), Eugen Weber (0000-0002-0339-3810, Ghent University Hospital), Erik Weber (0009-0000-1508-2422) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-38 |
| Publication date | 2003-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2303.00227 |
| OpenAlex | W2067671706 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 1 |
Although interest in them is clearly growing, most professional historians do not accept thought experiments as appropriate tools. Advocates of the deliberate use of thought experiments in history argue that without counterfactuals, causal attributions in history do not make sense. Whereas such arguments play upon the meaning of causation in history, this article focuses on the reasoning processes by which historians arrive at causal explanations. First, we discuss the roles thought experiments play in arriving at explanations of both facts and contrasts. Then, we pinpoint the functions thought experiments fulfill in arriving at weighted explanations of contrasts
Attribution · Causality (physics) · Causation · Counterfactual conditional · Counterfactual thinking · Epistemology · Meaning (existential) · Thought experiment · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Psychology · Social Psychology
Concepts of Causation in Historiography
Afterthoughts on biases in history perception
History and GIS
Historie alternatywne i steampunk w literaturze. Archipelagi badawczo-interpretacyjne
Social Mechanisms, Causal Inference, and the Policy Relevance of Social Science
Scenarios and counterfactuals as modal narratives
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,37 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2019 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |