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Lewisian themes : the philosophy of David K. Lewis

Title
Lewisian themes : the philosophy of David K. Lewis / edited by Frank Jackson and Graham Priest.
Publication
Oxford : Clarendon, 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Jackson, Frank, 1943-
  • Priest, Graham.
Description
ix, 285 pages : illustrations, portrait; 24 cm
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
How many lives has Schrödinger's cat? : the Jack Smart lecture, Canberra, 27 June 2001 / David Lewis -- Counting the holes / Roberto Casati & Achille C. Varzi -- Adequacy conditions for counterpart theory / M.J. Cresswell -- Don't forget about the correspondence theory of truth / Marian David -- Second-order predication and the metaphysics of properties / Andy Egan -- Infinitesimal chances and the laws of nature / Adam Elga -- Desire beyond belief / Alan Hájek & Philip Pettit -- Two mistakes about credence and chance / Ned Hall -- As good as it gets : Lewis on truth in fiction / Richard Hanley -- Elusive knowledge of things in themselves / Rae Langton -- The ballad of Ugly Dave / Jim Mackenzie -- Moral realism with overlap / Kris McDaniel -- David Lewis and Schrödinger's cat / David Papineau -- Distributional properties / Josh Parsons -- The context of essence / L.A. Paul -- Worldly indeterminacy : a rough guide / Gideon Rosen & Nicholas J.J. Smith -- Quiddistic knowledge / Jonathan Schaffer -- Lewis on intentionality / Robert Stalnaker -- Transworld similarity and transworld belief / Barry Taylor -- Counterpossibles and similarity / David Vander Laan.
ISBN
  • 019927455X (hbk.) :
  • 0199274568 (pbk.) :
OCLC
  • ocm56423352
  • SCSB-5125105
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Columbia University Libraries