Reality and Humean Supervenience

Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis

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If asked what Humeanism could mean today, there is no other philosopher to turn to whose work covers such a wide range of topics from a unified Humean perspective as that of David Lewis. The core of Lewis's many contributions to philosophy, including his work in philosophical ontology, intensional logic and semantics, probability and decision theory, topics within philosophy of science as well as a distinguished philosophy of mind, can be understood as the development of philosophical position that is centered around his conception of Humean supervenience. If we accept the thesis that it is physical science and not philosophical reasoning that will eventually arrive at the basic constituents of all matter pertaining to our world, then Humean supervenience is the assumption that all truths about our world will supervene on the class of physical truths in the following sense: There are no truths in any compartment of our world that cannot be accounted for in terms of differences and similarities among those properties and external space-time relations that are fundamental to our world according to physical science.

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This collection gathers papers on David Lewis's metaphysics. Since the editors have assembled a superb group of authors, the result is at the cutting edge of the best work in contemporary metaphysics. Together with Lewis's writings it would make for an outstanding seminar in metaphysics.--Ernest Sosa, Brown University

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Non-Fiction Philosophy Epistemology & The Theory of Knowledge History of Western Philosophy Philosophy of The Mind

Preface	p. vii
Reality and Humean Supervenience: Some Reflections on David Lewis's Philosophy	p. 1
Modal Realism
Island Universes and the Analysis of Modality	p. 27
Time Travel Fiction	p. 57
Counting the Cost of Modal Realism	p. 93
Against Against Overlap and Endurance	p. 105
The Case for Perdurance	p. 123
Physicalism, Causation, and Conditionals
Naturalism for the Faint of Heart	p. 143
Going through the Open Door Again: Counterfactual versus Singularist Theories of Causation	p. 163
On Forward and Backward Counterfactual Conditionals	p. 177
Reduction of Mind
Multiple Reference, Multiple Realization, and the Reduction of Mind	p. 205
Knowing What It Is Like: The Ability Hypothesis and the Knowledge Argument	p. 223
Index	p. 239
About the Contributors	p. 245
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