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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"David Lewis."”.
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Reporting theory of fictionalizing.
… trilemma of viable accounts of fictionalizing: David Lewis's and John Searle's pretend-assertion theory, Manuel Garcia-Carpintero's and Greg Currie's neo-Gricean audience-make-belief theory, and my reporting-on-fictional-situations theory. Chapter Four details an account of paradigmatic cases of …
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The Ontology of Persistence
In 1986, David Lewis offered what he thought would be the decisive objection against endurantism, showing it to be an implausible theory. The problem of temporary intrinsics stated that an object cannot have two complementary intrinsic properties while maintaining identity, as endurantists claim. …
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A Kantian critique of David Lewis's modal realism
… the modal realist metaphysics of modality of David Lewis is subjected to a Kantian critique. Modal realism is the theory that possible worlds are the sorts of things our actual world is. Lewis's argument for modal realism in ""Possible Worlds"" contains what in Kantian terms are synthetic …
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Counterfactuals, dispositions, and conscious experience : essays on entropy
… thesis concerns counterfactual conditionals. David Lewis has offered a natural and influential analysis of counterfactuals. But the analysis fails to take into account the asymmetry of entropy, and comes to grief precisely because of that failure. The cause of the grief is that processes …
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An information theoretic approach to veridical hallucination
David Lewis, in "Veridical Hallucination and Prosthetic Vision", outlines his views on seeing. He discusses, by way of several examples, unusual visual conditions and gives explanations of why one does or does not see in those conditions. However, it is not always clear exactly how Lewis' views …
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The time of possibilities : truth and felicity of subjunctive conditionals
… Capitalizing on work by Irene Heim, David Lewis and Robert Stalnaker, I show that this proposal allows us to develop a semantic analysis of those conditionals that are traditionally called subjunctive conditionals, and to provide an answer to how to select the worlds that the modal …
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Desire, belief, and conditional belief
… In the second chapter, I investigate whether David Lewis has shown that decision theory is incompatible with anti-Humean theories of desire. His triviality proof against "desire as belief' seems to show that desires can be at best conditional beliefs about goodness. I argue that within causal …
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Counterfactuals Without Causation, Probabilistic Counterfactuals and the Counterfactual Analysis of Causation
… sequences – an alleged problem for the classic Lewis-Stalnaker semantics for counterfactuals. I argue that none of the extant approaches to the problem are right, and defend a novel solution to the puzzle. If I am correct, reverse Sobel sequences do not threaten the classic analysis. They do, …
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The Colored Sense of Awareness: An Analysis of African American Perceptions of Race and Communication in the Workplace
The United States has a troubled history with race relations. African Americans have immeasurably experienced racism and racial oppression in various forms and in many sectors of the American society. One of the sectors that the racial inequalities of our past have affected is the employment …
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Iron and reactive oxygen in wheat-pathogen interactions
Iron is an essential component of various proteins and pigments for both plants and pathogenic fungi. However, redox cycling between the ferric and ferrous forms of iron can also catalyse the production of dangerous free radicals and iron homeostasis is therefore tightly regulated. During pathogen …
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A Multivariate Analysis of Personological Differences in Response to Unfavorable Evaluations of One's Self
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:01:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6910717.pdf: 5656312 bytes, checksum: fc55abd8267692846c6302439bd318b0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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Rhizophoraceae alkaloids : an approach to the synthesis of cassipourine
The chemistry and structure of cassipourine are outlined, and a number of various possible synthetic approaches are discussed in the light of the chemistry of 1,2-dithiols and of the pyrrolizidine ring system. A route commencing with L-proline having been chosen, this was converted into …
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Going to MIT.
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, 1965
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African symbolism and form on two American black college campuses
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1981.
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A Monte Carlo calculation of the resonance escape probability of thorium in a homogeneous reactor
We have undertaken to develop a method !or determining the resonance escape probability of homogeneous reactors containing aqueous solutions of a resonance absorber. TH(NO₃)₄ was selected as a salt since it is readily dissolvable in water. Even at the highest concentration, the atomic densities of …
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Sexual behaviours among a cohort of street-involved youth in Vancouver
Background: Street-involved youth are known to be at a greatly increased risk of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs); however, the role that environmental and structural factors play in driving disease transmission risk among this population has not been thoroughly examined. Methods: The …
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Self-Theory and Effective Functioning
A person who conceptualizes self-attributes as relatively fixed (an "entity theorist") has been shown to exhibit maladaptive responses to failure. In contrast, a person who conceptualizes self-attributes as malleable (an "incremental theorist") has been shown to demonstrate adaptive response …
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Counterfactual Logic: A Modern Overview
Lewis (1973) described a family of logics for reasoning about counterfactual statements. These logics also contained additional connectives for reasoning about comparative possibility statements and modalities. Moreover, Lewis described a possible world semantics involving a ``sphere system'' that …
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Paint blocking in Ford's in-line vehicle sequencing environment
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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