Philosophical Papers : Volume II, Volume 2Oxford University Press, USA, Mar 26, 1987 - 384 pages 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. |
Contents
Counterfactuals and Comparative Possibility | 3 |
Counterfactual Dependence and Times Arrow | 32 |
Causal Decision Theory Australasian Journal of Philosophy | 59 |
The Paradoxes of Time Travel | 67 |
A Subjectivists Guide to Objective Chance | 83 |
Probabilities of Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities | 133 |
Causation | 159 |
Causal Explanation | 214 |
Events | 241 |
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| Title | Philosophical Papers : Volume II, Volume 2 |
| Author | David Lewis Professor of Philosophy Princeton University |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA, 1987 |
| ISBN | 019802066X, 9780198020660 |
| Length | 384 pages |
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