Counterfactuals

Wiley, 1973 - Philosophy - 156 pages

Counterfactuals is David Lewis's 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. Since its original publication in 1973, it has become a classic of contemporary philosophy, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the logic and metaphysics of counterfactuals. The book also includes an appendix of related writings by Lewis.

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Along side (and opposed to) Kripke, David Lewis helped bring the idea of possible worlds into reality. "Mad Dog" Lewis inadvertently brings Philosophy and Physics closer together. Read full review

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JSTOR: David Lewis and the Analysis of Counterfactuals
David Lewis and the Analysis of Counterfactuals DONALD NUTE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA In a number of articles published over the past few years (see references) ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0029-4624(197609)10%3A3%3C355%3ADLATAO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F

A counterexample to the Stalnaker-Lewis analysis of counterfactuals
Now the analyses under consideration of counterfactuals of the form ... Counterfactuals may be vague in general, but on the terms of the above ...
www.springerlink.com/ index/ T00406510MP55161.pdf

LINGUISTIX&LOGIK, Tony Marmo's blog
The Content of Counterfactuals and their Role in Explanation ... What are counterfactuals for? The question is pressing. Why do we evaluate counterfactuals ...
tonymarmo.tripod.com/ linguistix-logik/ index.blog?topic_id=1050053

1 Modalities and Future Contingencies. Nelson Goodman�s and David ...
In the empirical sciences the role of counterfactuals is based on what ones ... The possibility of formulating counterfactuals when predictions are made, as ...
www.whatif-sowhat.nl/ abstracts/ mras.pdf

Towards a Property Theoretic Account of Counterfactuals
In this paper I consider a tension between dispositional essentialism and possible worlds semantics for counterfactuals. I take dispositional essentialism ...
facweb.bcc.ctc.edu/ wpayne/ towards_a_property_theoretic_acc1.htm

Counterfactuals
In developing truth conditiions for counterfactuals we follow the account given ... The truth value of counterfactuals is itself vague; the account should ...
ocw.mit.edu/ NR/ rdonlyres/ Linguistics-and-Philosophy/ 24-221Fall-2004/ ECD6A5EA-A15A-47AB-BFD6-111D60AECA8C/ 0/ counterfa...

Hector Parr's Essays: Conditionals and Counterfactuals
The word IF has been interpreted in various ways by philosophers. This essay considers some of the problems
www.c-parr.freeserve.co.uk/ hcp/ if.htm

Counterfactuals � Goodman�s Account of Counterfactuals � Two ...
Counterfactuals involve what would happen, or would have happened in ... Counterfactuals are called counterfactuals, because it is assumed that ...
socrates.berkeley.edu/ ~fitelson/ 269/ day_3_(1_15_02).pdf

Chance and Counterfactuals
What then should we make of counterfactuals? We shall certainly be tempted to think that most ordinary counterfactuals are false. ...
www.emergentdatasystems.com/ hawthorne/ chanceCounterfactuals.htm

476 COUNTERFACTUALS DONALD NUTE A complete analysis of our ...
will concentrate on an account of the validity of counterfactuals which does ... In short, I hope to show that we use counterfactuals on different occasions ...
projecteuclid.org/ DPubS/ Repository/ 1.0/ Disseminate?handle=euclid.ndjfl/ 1093891882& view=body& content-type=pdf_1

About the author (1973)

David Lewis (1941- 2001) was Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His publications include Convention (reissued by Blackwell 2002), On the Plurality of Worlds (reissued by Blackwell, 2000), Parts of Classes (1991), and of numerous articles in metaphysics and other areas. Many of his writings are available in his Collected Papers.

Bibliographic information

Title	Counterfactuals Counterfactuals, David Kellogg Lewis Library of philosophy and logic
Author	David Lewis
Edition	illustrated, reprint, reissue, revised
Publisher	Wiley, 1973
ISBN	0631224254, 9780631224259
Length	156 pages
Subjects	Philosophy › Logic Philosophy / Logic Philosophy / Metaphysics

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