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Philosophical papers / David Lewis.
Van Pelt Library B29 .L49 1983 v.1-2 v.2 v.1
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, David K. (David Kellogg), 1941-2001.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- volumes ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1983-
- Summary:
- This is the second volume of philosophical essays by one of the most innovative and influential philosophers now writing in English. Containing thirteen papers in all, the book includes both new essays and previously published papers, some of them with extensive new postscripts reflecting Lewis's current thinking. The papers in Volume II focus on causation and several other closely related topics, including counterfactual and indicative conditionals, the direction of time, subjective and objective probability, causation, explanation, perception, free will, and rational decision. Throughout, Lewis analyzes global features of the world in such a way as to show that they might turn out to supervene on the spatiotemporal arrangement of local qualities.
- Contents:
- Part 4 Counterfactuals and Time 1
- 16. Counterfactuals and Comparative Possibility 3
- 17. Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow 32
- Postscripts to "Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow" 52
- 18. The Paradoxes of Time Travel 67
- Part 5 Probability 81
- 19. A Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance 83
- Postscripts to "A Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance" 114
- 20. Probabilities of Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities 133
- Postscript to "Probabilities of Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities" 152
- Part 6 Causation 157
- 21. Causation 159
- Postscripts to "Causation" 172
- 22. Causal Explanation 214
- 23. Events 241
- Part 7 Dependence and Decision 271
- 24. Veridical Hallucination and Prosthetic Vision 273
- Postcript to "Veridical Hallucination and Prosthetic Vision" 287
- 25. Are We Free To Break the Laws? 291
- 26. Prisoners' Dilemma Is a Newcomb Problem 299
- 27. Causal Decision Theory 305
- Postscript to "Causal Decision Theory" 337
- 28. Utilitarianism and Truthfulness 340
- Bibliography of the Writings of David Lewis 343.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195032039
- 0195032047
- OCLC:
- 9083037
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