Reality and Humean Supervenience - Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis

Informationen zum Autor Gerhard Preyer is professor of social science at J. W. Goethe University in Frankfurt. Frank Siebelt is professor of philosophy at J. W. Goethe University in Frankfurt. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Modal Realism Chapter 2 Island Universes and the Analysis of Modality Chapter 3 Time Travel Fiction Chapter 4 Counting the Cost of Modal Realism Chapter 5 Against Against Overlap and Endurance Chapter 6 The Case for Perdurance Part 7 Physicalism, Causation, and Conditionals Chapter 8 Naturalism for the Faint of Heart Chapter 9 Going through the Open Door Again: Counterfactual vs. Singularist theories of Causation Chapter 10 On Forward and Backward Counterfactual Conditions Part 11 Reduction of Mind Chapter 12 Multiple Reference, Multiple Realization, and the Reduction of Mind Chapter 13 Knowing What It Is like: The Ability Hypothesis and the Knowledge Argument Chapter 14 Index Chapter 15 Reality and Humean Supervenience: Some Essays on David Lewis's Philosophy

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• Authors: Gerhard Preyer, Gerhard Siebelt Preyer, Frank Siebelt
• Assisted by: Gerhard Preyer (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.2001
• EAN: 9780742512016
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1201-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory; Studies in Epistemology and Co; Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works