What are centered worlds?
David Lewis argues that centered worlds give us a way to capture de se, or self-locating, contents in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. In recent years, centered worlds have also gained other uses in areas ranging widely from metaphysics to ethics. In this paper, I raise a problem for c...
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| description | David Lewis argues that centered worlds give us a way to capture de se, or self-locating, contents in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. In recent years, centered worlds have also gained other uses in areas ranging widely from metaphysics to ethics. In this paper, I raise a problem for centered worlds and discuss the costs and benefits of different solutions. My investigation into the nature of centered worlds brings out potentially problematic implicit commitments of the theories that employ them. In addition, my investigation shows that the conception of centered worlds widely attributed to David Lewis is not only problematic, but in fact not his. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1020212020-03-07T12:10:41Z What are centered worlds? Liao, Shen-yi. School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Philosophy David Lewis argues that centered worlds give us a way to capture de se, or self-locating, contents in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. In recent years, centered worlds have also gained other uses in areas ranging widely from metaphysics to ethics. In this paper, I raise a problem for centered worlds and discuss the costs and benefits of different solutions. My investigation into the nature of centered worlds brings out potentially problematic implicit commitments of the theories that employ them. In addition, my investigation shows that the conception of centered worlds widely attributed to David Lewis is not only problematic, but in fact not his. 2014-02-27T04:17:38Z 2019-12-06T20:48:23Z 2014-02-27T04:17:38Z 2019-12-06T20:48:23Z 2012 2012 Journal Article Liao, S.-Y. (2012). What Are Centered Worlds?. The Philosophical Quarterly, 62(247), 294-316. 0031-8094 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102021 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18868 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.00042.x en The Philosophical quarterly © 2012 The Editors of The Philosophical Quarterly. |
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