David Lewis

Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology

Volume 2
Herausgeber: Dancy, Jonathan; Sosa, Ernest

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This second volume of papers is devoted to Lewis's work in metaphysics and epistemology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 783g
• ISBN-13: 9780521582483
• ISBN-10: 0521582482
• Artikelnr.: 35451746

Autorenporträt

David Lewis is co-presenter of the New Politics Australia podcast, historian, musicologist, musician and political scientist based in Sydney. His lecturing and research interests include roots music, popular music, Australian, UK and US politics and crime fiction. He has published in Music Forum Australia, Eureka Street, Quadrant, Crikey and has edited several books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. New Work for a theory of universals
2. Putnam's paradox
3. Against structural universals
4. A comment on Armstrong and Forrest
5. Extrinsic properties
6. Defining 'intrinsic' (with Rae Langton)
7. Finkish dispositions
8. Noneism or Allism?
9. Many, but almost one
10. Casati and Varzi on holes (with Stephanie Lewis)
11. Rearrangement of particles: reply to Lowe
12. Armstrong on combinatorial possibility
13. A world of truthmakers?
14. Maudlin and modal mystery
15. Humean supervenience debugged
16. Psychophysical and theoretical identifications
17. What experience teaches
18. Reduction of mind
19. Should a materialist believe in Qualia?
20. Naming the colours
21. Percepts and color mosaics in visual experience
22. Individuation by acquaintance and by stipulation
23. Why conditionalize?
24. What puzzling Pierre does not believe
25. Elusive knowledge
Index.