Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first of a three-volume collection of David Lewis's most recent papers in all the areas to which he has made significant contributions. This first volume is devoted to Lewis's work on philosophical logic from the last twenty-five years. It will serve as an important reference tool for all philosophers and their students.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Adverbs of quantification; 2. Index, context, and content; 3. 'Whether' report; 4. Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities; 5. Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities II; 6. Intensional logics without iterative axioms; 7. Ordering semantics and premise semantics for Counterfactuals; 8. Logic for equivocators; 9. Relevant implication; 10. Statements partly about observation; 11. Ayer's first empiricist criterion of meaning: why does it fail?; 12. Analog and digital; 13. Lucas against mechanism; 14. Lucas against mechanism II; 15. Policing the Aufbau; 16. Finitude and infinitude in the atomic calculus of individuals (with Wilfrid Hodges); 17. Nominalistic set theory; 18. Mathematics is megethology; Index.
