On the Plurality of Worlds

Name: On the Plurality of Worlds
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ISBN: 9780631224266

ISBN-10: 0631224262

ISBN-13: 9780631224266

Edition: 1986

Authors: David Lewis

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This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true. After putting forward the type of modal realism he favors, Lewis answers numerous objections that have been raised against it. These include an insistence that everything must be actual; paradoxes akin to those that confront naive set theory; arguments that modal realism leads to inductive skepticism, or to disregard for prudence and morality; and finally, sheer incredulity…

Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/8/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.60" wide x 9.60" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface



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: Properties


Isolation


Concreteness


Plenitude


Actuality



Paradox in Paradise


Everything is Actual


All Worlds in One


More Worlds Than There Are


How Can We Know


A Road to Scepticism


A Road to Indifference


Arbitrariness Lost


The Incredulous Stare



Paradise on the Cheap


The Ersatzist Program


Linguistic Ersatzism


Pictorial Ersatzism


Magical Ersatzism



Counterparts or Double Lives


Good Questions and Bad


Against Overlap


Against Trans-World Individuals


Against Haecceitism


Against Constancy


Works Cited


Index