Similarity accounts of counterfactuals: A reality check1.

To an unusual extent, philosophers agree that counterfactuals have truth conditions involving the most similar possible worlds where their antecedents are true, in the style of the celebrated and path‐breaking Stalnaker/Lewis accounts. Roughly, these accounts say that the counterfactual if A were th...

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Published in:	Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 110; no. 3; pp. 887 - 916
Main Author:	Hájek, Alan
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell May2025
Subjects:	Counterfactuals (Logic) Philosophy Metaphysics Similarity (Psychology) Ethics
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