Title Statements
- Full title :Counterfactuals / David Lewis.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Blackwell Publishers
- Place of Publication:Malden, MA
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
Notes
Originally published 1973; reissued 2001; reprinted 2003, 2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 156 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0631224254, 9780631224259
- oclc:on1007326587
- LC Classification:BC199.C66
Table of Contents
1. An Analysis of Counterfactuals. 1.1. Introduction. 1.2. Strict Conditionals. 1.3. Variably Strict Conditionals. 1.4. The Limit Assumption. 1.5. 'Might' Counterfactuals and Outer Modalities. 1.6. Impossible Antecedents. 1.7. True Antecedents. 1.8. Counterfactual Fallacies. 1.9. Potentialities -- 2. Reformulations. 2.1. Multiple Modalities. 2.2. Propositional Quantification. 2.3. Comparative Similarity. 2.4. Similarity Measures. 2.5. Comparative Possibility. 2.6. Cotenability. 2.7. Selection Functions. 2.8. The Selection Operator -- 3. Comparisons. 3.1. The Metalinguistic Theory: Implicit Premises. 3.2. The Metalinguistic Theory: Factual Premises. 3.3. The Metalinguistic Theory: Laws of Nature. 3.4. Stalnaker's Theory -- 4. Foundations. 4.1. Possible Worlds. 4.2. Similarity -- 5. Analogies. 5.1. Conditional Obligation. 5.2. 'When Next' and 'When Last'. 5.3. Contextually Definite Descriptions -- 6. Logics. 6.1. Completeness Results. 6.2. Decidability Results. 6.3. Derived Modal Logics -- Appendix: Related writings by David Lewis.
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