Wednesday 25 May 2011 Open to all, subject to availability 10:00 - 11:00 Documents and media Download support pdf (121.37 KB) Speaker(s) Jon Elster Professor at the Collège de France Events Previous Symposium 26 Jan 2011 10:00 to 11:00 Jacques Bouveresse Robert Musil and the question of how history is made Not recorded Symposium 9 Feb 2011 10:00 to 11:00 Claude Diebolt Counterfactual reasoning in cliometry : case study and personal use of the approach Not recorded Symposium 23 Feb 2011 10:00 to 11:00 Jean-Matthias Fleury et Bogdan Rusu Counterfactuals and historical causality : a Weberian approach Not recorded Symposium 9 Mar 2011 10:00 to 11:00 Jacques Sapir From demonstration by the absurd to the possibility of another history : the case of a … Not recorded Symposium 23 Mar 2011 10:00 to 11:00 Pierre-Michel Menger Heuristic functions and constructivist drifts of counterfactual reasoning in the social sciences Not recorded Symposium 27 Apr 2011 10:00 to 11:00 Christophe Prochasson What if the revolution hadn't happened ?… Not recorded Symposium 11 May 2011 10:00 to 11:00 Jérôme David The counterfactual mechanisms of the novel and historical narrative in the 11th cent… Not recorded Symposium 25 May 2011 10:00 to 11:00 Jon Elster If Marx and Freud had never lived Not recorded Symposium 8 Jun 2011 10:00 to 11:00 Stephane Chauvier The lessons of possibility in history : dramatic weighting or real contingency … Not recorded Next See also Jacques Bouveresse, chair Philosophy of language and knowledge The uses and challenges of counterfactual reasoning in history and the social sciences
