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Editorial: Unpredictability, contingency and counterfactuals
Editorial: Unvorhersehbarkeit, Kontingenz und das Kontrafaktische
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Abstract "While it has always been present in our everyday-life practices, counterfactual thinking currently stages a comeback as a scientific method. Of late, a renewed interest in counterfactuals can be witnessed in academic disciplines that have traditionally been suspicious of studying events or processe... mehr
"While it has always been present in our everyday-life practices, counterfactual thinking currently stages a comeback as a scientific method. Of late, a renewed interest in counterfactuals can be witnessed in academic disciplines that have traditionally been suspicious of studying events or processes that have never happened (and will never happen). Is it mere coincidence that an impressive
number of unconnected initiatives have started to re-discuss counterfactual thinking at the same time? Or are we living through times that somehow foster such a renewed interest in unpredictability, contingency and counterfactuals?" (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wissenschaft; Auswirkung; Denken; Methode; Alternative; Psychologie; Anwendung; Kontingenz
Klassifikation
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Forschungsarten der Sozialforschung
Allgemeine Psychologie
Freie Schlagwörter
contingency; counterfactual thinking; kontrafaktisches Denken
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2009
Seitenangabe
S. 9-15
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 34 (2009) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.34.2009.2.9-15
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)