Reality and Humean Supervenience Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis
by Preyer, Gerhard; Siebelt, Frank; Armstrong, D M.; Bennett, Jonathan; Bigelow, John; Bonevac, Daniel Albert; Bricker, Phillip; Forrest, Peter; Horgan, Terence; Noonan, Harold W.; Teller, Paul; Tye, MichaelFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-03-21
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary
Reality and Humean Supervenience confronts the reader with central aspects in the philosophy of David Lewis, whose work in ontology, metaphysics, logic, probability, philosophy of mind, and language articulates a unique and systematic foundation for modern physicalism. This book includes a useful, general introduction to Lewis's philosophy and contributions by well-known American, Australian, and European philosophers whose commentaries address major topics in Lewis's theory of modality.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Reality and Humean Supervenience: Some Reflections on David Lewis's Philosophy | p. 1 |
| Modal Realism | |
| Island Universes and the Analysis of Modality | p. 27 |
| Time Travel Fiction | p. 57 |
| Counting the Cost of Modal Realism | p. 93 |
| Against Against Overlap and Endurance | p. 105 |
| The Case for Perdurance | p. 123 |
| Physicalism, Causation, and Conditionals | |
| Naturalism for the Faint of Heart | p. 143 |
| Going through the Open Door Again: Counterfactual versus Singularist Theories of Causation | p. 163 |
| On Forward and Backward Counterfactual Conditionals | p. 177 |
| Reduction of Mind | |
| Multiple Reference, Multiple Realization, and the Reduction of Mind | p. 205 |
| Knowing What It Is Like: The Ability Hypothesis and the Knowledge Argument | p. 223 |
| Index | p. 239 |
| About the Contributors | p. 245 |
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