An edition of On the Plurality of Worlds
(2001)
On the Plurality of Worlds
by David K. Lewis
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On the Plurality of Worlds
February 1, 2001, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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0631224262 9780631224266
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First Sentence
"The world we live in is a very inclusive thing."
Table of Contents
Preface
1. A Philosopher's Paradise
1.1. The Thesis of Plurality of Worlds
1.2. Modal Realism at Work: Modality
1.3. Modal Realism at Work: Closeness
1.4. Modal Realism at Work: Content
1.5. Modal Realism at Work: Properties
1.6. Isolation
1.7. Concreteness
1.8. Plenitude
1.9. Actuality
2. Paradox in Paradise?
2.1. Everything is Actual?
2.2. All Worlds in One?
2.3. More Worlds Than There Are?
2.4. How Can We Know?
2.5. A Road to Scepticism?
2.6. A Road to Indifference?
2.7. Arbitrariness Lost?
2.8. The Incredulous Stare
3. Paradise on the Cheap?
3.1. The Ersatzist Programme
3.2. Linguistic Ersatzism
3.3. Pictorial Ersatzism
3.4. Magical Ersatzism
4. Counterparts or Double Lives?
4.1. Good Questions and Bad
4.2. Against Overlap
4.3. Against Trans-World Individuals
4.4. Against Haecceitism
4.5. Against Constancy
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