Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis and A Materialist Theory of the Mind

Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis

Name: Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis
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Author: Gerhard Preyer
ISBN: 9780742512016

by Gerhard Preyer, Frank Siebelt

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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

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If asked what Humeanism could mean today, there is no other philosopher to turn to whose work covers such a wide range of topics from a unified Humean perspective as that of David Lewis. The core of Lewis's many contributions to philosophy, including his work in philosophical ontology, intensional logic and semantics, probability and decision theory, topics within philosophy of science as well as a distinguished philosophy of mind, can be understood as the development of philosophical position that is centered around his conception of Humean supervenience. If we accept the thesis that it is physical science and not philosophical reasoning that will eventually arrive at the basic constituents of all matter pertaining to our world, then Humean supervenience is the assumption that all truths about our world will supervene on the class of physical truths in the following sense: There are no truths in any compartment of our world that cannot be accounted for in terms of differences and similarities among those properties and external space-time relations that are fundamental to our world according to physical science.

Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published
March 2001
Weight
386g
Dimensions
15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm
ISBN
9780742512016
ISBN-10
0742512010
Eden Code
5230024

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