Philosophical Papers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195036466)

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 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.


Author: David Lewis
ISBN-10: 0195036468
ISBN-13: 9780195036466
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/26/1987
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.64w x 0.94d