On the Plurality of Worlds.
- James E. Tomberlin, David Lewis
- Philosophy
- 1 March 1989
Preface. 1. A Philosopher's Paradise. The Thesis of Pluraliry of Worlds. Modal Realism at Work: Modality. Modal Realism at Work: Closeness. Modal Realism at Work: Content. Modal Realism at Work:…
Scorekeeping in a language game
- David Lewis
- PhilosophyJournal of Philosophical Logic
- 1979
It’s not as easy as you might think to say something that will be unacceptable for lack of required presuppositions, and straightway that presupposition springs into existence, making what you said acceptable after all.
Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow
- David Lewis
- Philosophy
- 1 November 1979
Today I am typing words on a page. Suppose today were different. Suppose I were typing different words. Then plainly tomorrow would be different also; for instance, different words would appear on…
Convention: A Philosophical Study
- David Lewis
- Philosophy
- 1 July 1970
Acknowledgements. Foreword by W.V. Quine. Introduction. I. Coordination and Convention. Sample Coordination Problems. Analysis of Coordination Problems. Solving Coordination Problems. Convention.…
Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic
- David Lewis
- Philosophy
- 1968
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Parts Of Classes
- David Lewis
- Philosophy
- 1991
Taking classes apart the trouble with classes a framework for set theory set theory for mereologists.
Radical interpretation
- David Lewis
- PhilosophySynthese
- 2004
Imagine that we have undertaken the task of coming to know Karl as a person. We would like to know what he believes, what he desires, what he means, and anything else about him that can be explained…
The Paradoxes of Time Travel
- David Lewis
- Art
- 8 January 2016
T IME travel, I maintain, is possible. The paradoxes of time travel are oddities, not impossibilities. They prove only this much, which few would have doubted: that a possible world where time travel…
Papers in metaphysics and epistemology
- David Lewis
- Philosophy
- 13 January 1999
Introduction 1. New Work for a theory of universals 2. Putnam's paradox 3. Against structural universals 4. A comment on Armstrong and Forrest 5. Extrinsic properties 6. Defining 'intrinsic' (with…
Ordering semantics and premise semantics for counterfactuals
- David Lewis
- PhilosophyJournal of Philosophical Logic
- 1 May 1981
It is shown that premise semantics is equivalent to the most general version - roughly, Pollock's version - of ordering semantics in terms of orderings of worlds and sets of premises.
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