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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This second collection of essays by Lewis focuses on causation, probability, dependence and decision, and several other related topics. The thirteen papers are a major contribution to philosophy by one of the most influential and imaginative of contemporary American philosophers.
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David Lewis is one of the most talented and profound philosophers writing today.
"David Lewis is one of the most talented and profound philosophers writing today."--Mind "David Lewis is one of the most talented and profound philosophers writing today."--Mind

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ISBN
9780195036466
Publisert
1987
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
525 gr
Høyde
202 mm
Bredde
136 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
382

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