Philosophical Papers II.

Fülszöveg

This is the second collection (rf (rfiilosophical essays by David Lewis, one of the most innovative, influential, and important philosophers now writing in English. Consisting of thirteen papers in alL PbUo-sopbical Papers: Volume n includes both new essays and previously published papers, some of them with extensive new postscr^ts r^ecting his current thinking.
Volume I contains pa^)ers on ontology, the (rfiilosc^fay oi mind, and the philost^hy of language. The papers in Volume II focus on causation and several other closely related topics, including counterLictual and indicative conditionals, the direction of time, subjective and objective probability, explanation, perception, free will, and rational decision. Both this collection and its companion volume fit into Lewis's longtime advocacy of the thesis he calls "Humean supervenience." Named after philosopher David Hume, the great denier of necessary connections, Humean supervenience posits that "all there is to the world is a... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This is the second collection (rf (rfiilosophical essays by David Lewis, one of the most innovative, influential, and important philosophers now writing in English. Consisting of thirteen papers in alL PbUo-sopbical Papers: Volume n includes both new essays and previously published papers, some of them with extensive new postscr^ts r^ecting his current thinking.
Volume I contains pa^)ers on ontology, the (rfiilosc^fay oi mind, and the philost^hy of language. The papers in Volume II focus on causation and several other closely related topics, including counterLictual and indicative conditionals, the direction of time, subjective and objective probability, explanation, perception, free will, and rational decision. Both this collection and its companion volume fit into Lewis's longtime advocacy of the thesis he calls "Humean supervenience." Named after philosopher David Hume, the great denier of necessary connections, Humean supervenience posits that "all there is to the world is a vast mosaic of local matters of particular fact, just one little thing and then another" Throughout these papers, Lewis analyzes global features of the world in such a way as to show that they might tum out to supervene on the spatiotemporal arrangement of local qualities, and at the same time replies to philosophical arguments against Humean supervenience.
Lewis's thesis—the backbone of this volume—links nearly all the major topics addressed in his essays and establishes Pbilosopbical Papers: Volume II as another of Lewis's major contributions to philosophy.
J Vissza