On the Plurality of Worlds
Book
Formal Antecedent
Foundations and Logic
Citation
David Lewis. (1986). On the Plurality of Worlds. Blackwell.
Why this reference is included
Lewis’ On the Plurality of Worlds (1986), published by Blackwell, sits in the program’s reference corpus as a standing technical source. Cited in Book VII (Categorical Metaphysics), Part 2, Chapter Causation, Space, and Time, where the program draws on it in the context of “Counterfactual theories (Lewis ) analysed A causes B'' asif A had not occurred, B would not have occurred’’; the result required a metaphysics of possible worlds and….”
Cited in
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Book VII — Categorical Metaphysics Part 2Chapter Causation, Space, and Time
Counterfactual theories (Lewis ) analysed ``A causes B'' as ``if A had not occurred, B would not have occurred''; the result required a metaphysics of possible worlds and struggled with pre-emption and overdetermination