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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In the last dozen years or so, our understanding of modality has been much improved by means of possible-world semantics: the project of analyzing modal language by systematically specifying the conditions under which a modal sentence is true at a possible world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
endpoint chance, matching visual experience, initial credence function, proposition that the coin, preempting cause, dependency hypotheses, probabilistic full pattern, stepwise dependence, feeble firing, rich partition, counterfeit chance, late preemption, causal decision theory, redundant causation, preempted alternative, divergence miracle, accidental classification, redundant causes, revising worlds, early preemption, counterfactual dependence, vigorous firing, dependency hypothesis, explanandum event, prosthetic vision Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Principal Principle, Subjectivist's Guide, Journal of Philosophy, New York, Limit Assumption, Robert Stalnaker, Philosophy of Science, Conditional Excluded Middle, Philosophical Review, Brian Skyrms, Jonathan Bennett, Bas van Fraassen, Frank Jackson, Nancy Cartwright, Theory of Conditionals, American Philosophical Quarterly, Big Bang, David Lewis, Philosophical Papers, Tickle Defence, American Council of Learned Societies, New Haven, Nicholas Rescher, Richard Jeffrey, The Logic of Decision New!
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In the last dozen years or so, our understanding of modality has been much improved by means of possible-world semantics: the project of analyzing modal language by systematically specifying the conditions under which a modal sentence is true at a possible world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
endpoint chance, matching visual experience, initial credence function, proposition that the coin, preempting cause, dependency hypotheses, probabilistic full pattern, stepwise dependence, feeble firing, rich partition, counterfeit chance, late preemption, causal decision theory, redundant causation, preempted alternative, divergence miracle, accidental classification, redundant causes, revising worlds, early preemption, counterfactual dependence, vigorous firing, dependency hypothesis, explanandum event, prosthetic vision Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Principal Principle, Subjectivist's Guide, Journal of Philosophy, New York, Limit Assumption, Robert Stalnaker, Philosophy of Science, Conditional Excluded Middle, Philosophical Review, Brian Skyrms, Jonathan Bennett, Bas van Fraassen, Frank Jackson, Nancy Cartwright, Theory of Conditionals, American Philosophical Quarterly, Big Bang, David Lewis, Philosophical Papers, Tickle Defence, American Council of Learned Societies, New Haven, Nicholas Rescher, Richard Jeffrey, The Logic of Decision New!
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- The Logic of Decision by Richard C. Jeffrey on 4 pages
- How the Laws of Physics Lie by Nancy Cartwright on page 57, page 58, and page 176
- Foundations of Historical Knowledge by Morton G. White on page 215, and page 235
- Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke on page 252, and page 278
- Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science by Carl G. Hempel on page 220, and page 230
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