Counterfactuals

By David Kellogg Lewis

Book Overview

Counterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fact conditionals, including his famous defense of realism about possible worlds.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631224254
• ISBN13: 9780631224259
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

if pigs had wings they could fly

I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Lewis's theory of possible worlds, part of which is contained in Counterfactuals. I regret every second of it.

Great book

This is an excellently written book on modal logic. Serious readers, please. Just a warning. Hah.