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Lewis' Account of Counterfactuals is Incongruent with Lewis' Account of Laws of Nature

Dizadji-Bahmani, Foad and Bradley, Seamus (2014) Lewis' Account of Counterfactuals is Incongruent with Lewis' Account of Laws of Nature. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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In this paper we argue that there is a problem with the conjunction of David Lewis' account of counterfactual conditionals and his account of laws of nature. This is a pressing problem since both accounts are individually plausible, and popular.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
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Dizadji-Bahmani, Foad
Bradley, SeamusSeamus.Bradley@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Keywords: counterfactuals, lewis, laws of nature
Subjects: General Issues > Laws of Nature
Depositing User: Dr. Seamus Bradley
Date Deposited: 14 Jul 2014 18:27
Last Modified: 14 Jul 2014 18:27
Item ID: 10875
Subjects: General Issues > Laws of Nature
Date: 2014
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10875

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