Counterfactuals

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Counterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fact conditionals, including his famous defense of realism about possible worlds Content: Cover Title Page Contents Preface Acknowledgements 1. AN ANALYSIS OF COUNTERFACTUALS 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Strict Conditionals 1.3 Variably Strict Conditionals 1.4 The Limit Assumption 1.5 'Might' Counterfactuals and Outer Modalities 1.6 Impossible Antecedents 1.7 True Antecedents 1.8 CounterfactuaI Fallacies 1.9 Potentialities 2. REFORMULATIONS 2.1 Multiple Modalities 2.2 Propositional Quantification 2.3 Comparative Similarity 2.4 Similarity Measures 2.5 Comparative Possibility 2.6 Cotenability 2.7 Selection Functions 2.8 The Selection Operator 3. COMPARISONS. 3.1 The Metalinguistic Theory: Implicit Premises3.2 The Metalinguistic Theory: Factual Premises 3.3 The Metalinguistic Theory: Laws of Nature 3.4 Stalnaker's Theory 4. FOUNDATIONS 4.1 Possible Wodds 4.2 Similarity 5. ANALOGIES 5.1 Conditional Obligation 5.2 'When Next' and 'When Last' 5.3 Contextually Definite Descriptions 6. LOGICS 6.1 Completeness Results 6.2 Decidability Results 6.3 Derived Modal Logics Appendix: Related writings by David Lewis Index.