Counterfactual reasoning, the capacity to entertain “what might have been” scenarios, is central to understanding how children interpret and learn from their experiences. This field explores the ...

In everyday life, we encounter situations that seem to demand an explanation of why something happened, how it happened, or how it could have been prevented. People have a scientist-like desire in ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 178, No. 4, Special Issue: Principle of Sufficient Reason (April 2021), pp. 1315-1337 (23 pages) I ...

Counterfactuals, the buzzy term being touted in the latest AI news, assert some impressive promises for the tech world. But the general idea is nothing new. Counterfactual thinking describes the human ...

In everyday life, we encounter situations that seem to demand an explanation of why something happened, how it happened, or how it could have been prevented. People have a scientist-like desire in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The abstention of the conservative-liberal government under Chancellor Angela Merkel on UN Security Council resolution 1973 marked the first ...

March 29, 2015 - San Francisco - Even rats can imagine: A new study finds that rats have the ability to link cause and effect such that they can expect, or imagine, something happening even if it ...

A team of MIT researchers has successfully modeled how people approach solving a complex problem by adopting distinct decision-making strategies. This study focuses on understanding how individuals ...