Bøker av David (Princeton University) Lewis

Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969.

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.

A presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary-to-fact conditionals, including the author's infamous defense of realism about possible worlds.