The study says to experts, if you use counterfactuals, then you’ll do better. The authors, psychology researchers in Italy, tested the theory using mock jurors in the first study and actual judges in ...

A new kind of machine-learning model is set to improve automated decision making in finance, health care, ad targeting, and more. A new kind of machine-learning model built by a team of researchers at ...

It is commonly agreed that when evaluating the validity of an argument involving context-sensitive expressions, the context should be held fixed. In their 2008 essay "Counterfactuals and Context," ...

It took you three weeks to gather the nerve to ask your boss for a raise–and three seconds for her to respond with a firm "no." For days afterwards you ponder what went wrong: "If only I had been more ...

von Fintel (Curr Stud Linguist Ser 36:123-152, 2001) and Gillies (Linguist Philos 30(3): 329-360, 2007) have proposed a dynamic strict conditional account of counterfactuals as an alternative to the ...

There's a moment from nearly a decade ago that's still on loop in Laura Ogden's mind. When Laura plays back this mental video, she imagines an alternate ending. A happier ending. There's a technical ...

In PSCI 3211 The Politics of Economic Inequality in the U.S., the goals of the course include: understanding the political causes of economic inequality; identifying the political factors that cause ...