Backtracking, Indeterminism, and Minimal Patterns.

According to Lewis, counterfactuals should be evaluated with a weighted similarity relation between possible worlds, when used to analyse causal relations. Lewis is well-known for endorsing a specific desideratum on the similarity relation such that backtracking counterfactuals emerge as false (in s...

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Publicado en:	Philosophia Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 687 - 711
Autor principal:	Zheng, Yujian
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Nature Apr2025
Materias:	Indeterminism (Philosophy) Counterfactuals (Logic) Lewis, David Causation (Philosophy) Determinism (Philosophy) Metaphysics
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