Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (2):396–405 (2005)
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Suppose the world is chancy. The worry arises that most ordinary counterfactuals are false. This paper examines David Lewis' strategy for rescuing such counterfactuals, and argues that it is highly problematic
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| Keywords | Analytic Philosophy Contemporary Philosophy Philosophy of Mind |
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| ISBN(s) | 0031-8205 |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2005.tb00534.x |
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