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Three steps to rational imagining?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2008

Jennifer Church
Jennifer Church
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604. church@vassar.eduhttp://faculty.vassar.edu/church/
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Abstract

Ruth Byrne presents a three-step argument to the conclusion that counterfactual imagining is rational. Insofar as this argument is valid, the conclusion is weaker than it seems. More importantly, it does not represent the central contributions of this book – contributions that, if anything, point instead to what is irrational about counterfactual imagining.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 5-6 , December 2007 , pp. 456
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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