Amazon just suggested I should buy Causation and Counterfactuals edited by Collins, Hall and Paul. Maybe this means the Amazon recommendation engine is broadening its scope, and we’ll soon see suggestions like, “People who bought this book also married …”
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Married to a metaphysician? Sounds like the set-up for a Woody Allen joke, circa 1962, to us philistines.
Does anything in the book deal with historical reasoning and counterfactuals?
In the sense I think you have in mind, not really.
Isn’t it sort of the other way around (with both the marriage and reading)? “People who married you also wrote…”
What does that Doc Edgerton apple/bullet photo have to do with counterfactual reasoning?
If the gun hadn’t fired, that photo wouldn’t be on the cover, for one thing.
What would be cool is if it still recommended that specific book even if you weren’t married to Laurie.
Amazon frequently recommends that I buy books which I, in fact, acquired and edited for Tor.
What would be cool is if it still recommended that specific book even if you weren’t married to Laurie.
Ha! Yes indeed.
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