Counterparts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079148 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Woodward (0000-0003-0653-1788, Universitat de Barcelona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 58-70 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00451.x |
| OpenAlex | W4255489048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
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
Epistemology · Possible world · Sociology · Virtue · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |