Reality and Humean Supervenience Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis

by Preyer, Gerhard; Siebelt, Frank; Armstrong, D M.; Bennett, Jonathan; Bigelow, John; Bonevac, Daniel; Bricker, Phillip; Forrest, Peter; Horgan, Terence; Noonan, Harold W.; Teller, Paul; Tye, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780742512016
• ISBN10: 0742512010
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-21
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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. This book includes a useful, general introduction to Lewis's philosophy and contributions by well-known American, Australian, and European philosophers whose commentaries address major topics in Lewis's theory of modality.

Table of Contents

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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