Reasoning counterfactually: making inferences about things that didn't happen.

By Valerie A. Thompson, Ruth M. J. Byrne. 2002

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, General Decision Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research

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Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, background): “…Halpern and Pearl (2005a,b), Hilton, McClure and Slugoski (2005); Hitchcock (2003); Hitchcock and Woodward (2003); Hoffman, et al., (2014); Khemlani and Johnson-Laird (2010); Kim, Khanna, and Koyejo (2016); Lipton, (1990); Mandel (2003a,b), McCloy and Byrne (2000); and Thompson and Byrne (2002).”
Counterfactual Thinking: From Logic to Morality (2017, background): “When participants in experiments are told, “if Ruby had been at the beach then Pearl would have been in the park” and then they are told, in fact, “Pearl was not in the park,” most of them conclude “Ruby was not at the beach” (e.g., Byrne & Tasso, 1999; Thompson & Byrne, 2002).”
Counterfactual thinking: The temporal order effect (2004, background): “…Michael picks RED and they WIN John picks BLACK and Michael picks RED and they WIN John picks BLACK and Michael picks BLACK and they LOSE People can keep in mind several possibilities to understand a counterfactual conditional (Byrne & Tasso, 1999; Quelhas & Byrne, 2003; Thompson & Byrne, 2002).”
Betting on conditionals (2010, background): “Psychologists have followed philosophers in studying, for example, causal conditionals and counterfactuals (Over, Hadjichristidis, Evans, Handley, & Sloman, 2007; Thompson & Byrne, 2002).”
Conditionals: a theory of meaning, pragmatics, and inference. (2002, background): “Some reasoners, as Thompson and Byrne (2000) showed, make the counterfactual interpretation of subjunctive conditionals, but others make the factual interpretation or focus on only one of the two models above.”
Thinking About the Opposite of What Is Said: Counterfactual Conditionals and Symbolic or Alternate Simulations of Negation (2018, methodology): “Of course, there may be additional possibilities that are also consistent with a counterfactual conditional, and participants may think about them if prompted by the content or the task (Thompson & Byrne, 2002).”
Counterfactual and semi-factual thoughts in moral judgements about failed attempts to harm (2017, background): “We created a counterfactual story ending in which participants were asked to consider how the outcome could have been worse, e.g.,We assume that reading about how the outcome could have been worse will affect people’s moral judgements about the failed attempt to harm because they will think about tw”