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Reality and Humean Supervenience - Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis (Paperback)
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Reality and Humean Supervenience - Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory
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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.
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