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This project explores counterfactual thinking, focusing on how imagination influences our understanding of hypothetical scenarios. It aims to clarify the connection between counterfactuals and modal terms, and to investigate the cognitive processes involved in thought experiments.
Thoughts about counterfactual situations are a central feature of human cognition, key to planning in any domain of activity:
What would happen if I missed a mortgage payment?
What if Britain were to leave the EU?
It seems that knowledge about counterfactual situations is possible under some circumstances.
The project’s general aim is to improve our understanding of those circumstances, and what role the imagination plays in specifying them.
The specific objectives are to investigate: (1) the co…
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
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Netherlands, Amsterdam
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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