David Lewis

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161Modal logic / Epistemology / Mathematics / Abstraction / Logic / If and only if / Software portability

1 The Conversational Role of Centered Contents Max Kölbel For Inquiry Abstract: Some philosophers, for example David Lewis, have argued for the need to

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Language: English - Date: 2013-04-16 08:45:29
162Analytic philosophers / Philosophers of science / Physicalism / Essentialism / Philosophy of life / Property / Immanuel Kant / Nomic / David Lewis / Philosophy / Metaphysics / Ontology

MONISTIC DISPOSITIONAL ESSENTIALISM Abstract In this paper I explain why I favour a metaphysics in which all fundamental natural properties are essentially dispositional. First, by considering what a world might be like

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Language: English - Date: 2010-03-24 07:11:59
163Analytic philosophy / Metaphysicians / Philosophical logic / Logicians / Possibility / Linguistic modality / Modal logic / David Lewis / Jeremy Butterfield / Philosophy / Logic / Analytic philosophers

Justin Clarke-Doane 712b Philosophy Hall Phone: [removed]removed] Modal Objectivity

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Language: English - Date: 2015-01-19 17:01:27
164Philosophy / Illocutionary act / Romeo and Juliet on screen / Romeo and Juliet / David Lewis / Meaning / Norm / Romeo / Utterance / Philosophy of language / Linguistics / Analytic philosophy

Inquiry, 41, 301±15 Lewis, Language, Lust and Lies Max KoÈlbel Universidad Nacional AutoÂnoma de Me xico

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Language: English - Date: 2010-01-13 06:51:28
165Philosophy of science / Analytic philosophy / Counterfactual conditional / Possibility / Modal logic / David Lewis / Possible world / Overdetermination / Causality / Logic / Philosophy / Conditionals

Fried Eggs, Thermodynamics, and the Special Sciences (forthcoming in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science) Jeffrey Dunn Abstract: David Lewis ([1986b]) gives an attractive and familiar account of counterfactual

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Language: English - Date: 2010-10-17 14:07:59
166Logic / Philosophy of language / Philosophical logic / Semantics / Analytic philosophers / Pragmatics / Rudolf Carnap / Language / David Lewis / Analytic philosophy / Meaning / Philosophy

Entry title: Conventions in Language 1154 Author(s):

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Language: English - Date: 2015-01-05 05:31:22
167Metaphysics / Modal logic / Physicalism / Ontology / David Lewis / Logicians / Possible world / Subjunctive possibility / Modal realism / Logic / Philosophy / Possibility

Hume’s Dictum and Metaphysical Modality: Lewis’s Combinatorialism Jessica Wilson Forthcoming in The Philosophy of David Lewis Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer, eds.

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Language: English - Date: 2013-03-05 22:09:12
168Cognitive science / Stephen Stich / Imagination / Belief / Iteration / Falstaff / Mind / Mental processes / Ethology

Imagination and the puzzles of iteration SHAUN NICHOLS Iteration presents opposing puzzles for a theory of the imagination. The first puzzle, noted by David Lewis, is that when a person pretends to pretend, the iteration

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Language: English - Date: 2004-08-10 13:13:05
169Causality / Analytic philosophy / Analytic philosophers / Philosophy of science / Counterfactual conditional / David Lewis / Causation / Disposition / Stephen Mumford / Law / Conditionals / Philosophy

The metaphysics of dispositions and causes TOBY H A N D F I E L D . Introduction In explaining what happens, we commonly use both dispositional and causal concepts. A historian might refer to the belligerent dispos

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Language: English - Date: 2010-06-15 11:01:45
170Problem of universals / Philosophical realism / Universal / David Lewis / Reality / Abstract particulars / Logic / Realism / Anti-realism / Metaphysics / Philosophy / Ontology

Laws of Nature, Exceptions and Tropes in : Philosophia scientiae 7 (2), 2003, p[removed]Max Kistler Université Paris X-Nanterre et

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Language: English - Date: 2009-03-12 18:52:37
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