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Philosophical Papers: Volume II

By David K. Lewis

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1987
ISBN
0195036468, 9780195036466
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1894846 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
384\193
Time added
2013-06-25 03:59:34

Description

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.

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