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Informationen zum Autor Daniel Bonevac is professor of philosophy and Human Dimensions of Organizations at the University of Texas at Austin. He has previously written Deduction, Worldly Wisdom, Simple Logic, The Art and Science of Logic , and Reduction in the Abstract Sciences , and edited Today ’ s Moral Issues, An Introduction to World Philosophy (with Stephen Phillips), Understanding Non-Western Philosophy (with Stephen Phillips), and Beyond the Western Tradition (with William Boon and Stephen Phillips). Working chiefly at the intersection of logic and ethics, he has taught courses in ethics for more than forty years; his YouTube channel has around seventy thousand subscribers and five million views. lo 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 ...
