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Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195036468

ISBN-139780195036466

eBay Product ID (ePID)60420

Product Key Features

Number of Pages384 Pages

Publication NamePhilosophical Papers

LanguageEnglish

SubjectHistory & Surveys / General, General

Publication Year1987

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy

AuthorDavid Lewis

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN82-022551

Dewey Edition19

Reviews"David Lewis is one of the most talented and profound philosophers writing today."--Mind"David Lewis is one of the most talented and profound philosophers writing today."--Mind

Volume NumberVol. II

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal191

SynopsisThis 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., 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 directionof 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 showthat they might turn out to supervene on the spatiotemporal arrangement of local qualities.