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23 de jul. de 2009 · David Lewis (1941–2001) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. He made significant contributions to philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, decision theory, epistemology, meta-ethics and aesthetics. In most of these fields he is essential reading; in many of them he is among the most ...
Abstract. David Lewis's book 'On the Plurality of Worlds' mounts an extended defense of the thesis of modal realism, that the world we inhabit the entire cosmos of which we are a part is but one of a vast plurality of worlds, or cosmoi, all causally and spatiotemporally isolated from one another. The purpose of this article is to provide an ...
18 de oct. de 2021 · If the plurality of worlds be admitted without difficulty; if the planets are believed to be inhabited, it is because the earth is considered merely as a habitation for man, from which it is inferred that were the planets uninhabited they would be useless: but I will venture to assert that such a mode of reasoning is confined, unphilosophic, and at the same time, presumptuous.
1 de ene. de 2005 · Lewis propounded a thesis of modal realism: the world we inhabit - the entire cosmos of which we are a part - is but one of a vast plurality of worlds, or cosmoi, all causally and spatiotemporally ...
5 de mar. de 2019 · On the plurality of worlds by Lewis, David K. Publication date 1986 Topics Modality (Theory of knowledge), Plurality of worlds, Realism Publisher Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell Collection trent_university; internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language
Finally, range maps were moderately correlated across analysis steps. The mean absolute correlation across voxels between range maps for all pairs of analysis steps was r = 0.49, with an average explained variance of R 2 = 0.26. In other words, while different analysis steps exerted spatially correlated effects on analysis outcomes across the brain, correlations among step-wise variability ...
David Lewis responded boldly: this talk of possible worlds is the literal truth. Lewis propounded a thesis of modal realism: the world we inhabit – the entire cosmos of which we are a part – is but one of a vast plurality of worlds, or cosmoi, all causally and spatiotemporally isolated from one another. Whatever might have happened in our ...
