On the Plurality of Worlds
by David K. Lewis
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This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true.Tags
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Thought provoking, but often confusing and poorly argued. I'm not convinced by Lewis that something like linguistic ersatzism is a bad account of modality.
Ouvrage absolument nécessaire pour qui veut comprendre un tant soit peu la théorie des mondes possibles de Lewis: sans prétention d'absolu (ce serait un comble dans sa théorie), les mondes possibles sont exposés et expliqués de manière plutôt simple; parfois quelques longueurs philosophiques, mais rien d'anormal...
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