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Counterparts
Author(s) -
Woodward Richard
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00451.x
Subject(s) - virtue , epistemology , modality (human–computer interaction) , possible world , philosophy , focus (optics) , sociology , computer science , artificial intelligence , physics , optics
Possible worlds represent you as being certain ways, as having a different lives, different hopes, and different friends. A foundational question in the philosophy of modality thus emerges: in virtue of what does a world represent you in these ways? In this paper, we focus on David Lewis's answer to this metarepresentational question: Counterpart Theory.