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The class will be devoted to the work of David Lewis, one of the most exciting and influential philosophers of the late twentieth century. We will have seminar-style discussions about his work on counterfactuals, time, causation, probability, and decision-theory.
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- causation
- causal explanation
- probability
- subjectivity
- objectivity
- chance
- hume
- supervenience
- decision theory
- prisoners? dilemma
- newcomb problem
- free will
- determinism
- plurality of worlds
- possible worlds
- time travel
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This course studies several important examples of the genre that between the early 18th century and the end of the 20th has come to seem the definitive literary form for representing and coming to terms with modernity. Syllabi vary, but the class usually attempts to convey a sense of the form's development over the past few centuries. Among
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- modernity
- narrative
- social criticism
- realism
- romance
- romantic
- subjectivity
- jane austen
- emily bront?
- charles dickens
- george eliot
- james joyce
- salman rushdie
- eighteenth century
- nineteenth century
- twentieth century
File: 24-260-spring-2008.zip
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- linguistics and philosophy
- counterfactuals
- comparative possibility
- counterfactual dependence
- time
- causation
- causal explanation
- probability
- subjectivity
- objectivity
- chance
- hume
- supervenience
- decision theory
- prisoners? dilemma
- newcomb problem
- free will
- determinism
- plurality of worlds
- possible worlds
- time travel
File: 21l-471-spring-2004.zip
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- 18th century
- 19th century
- 20th century
- eighteenth
- nineteenth
- twentieth
- modernity
- narrative
- social criticism
- realism
- romance
- romantic
- subjectivity
- jane austen
- emily bront?
- charles dickens
- george eliot
- james joyce
- salman rushdie
- eighteenth century
- nineteenth century
- twentieth century
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- literature
- english literature
- novel
- 18th century
- 19th century
- 20th century
- eighteenth
- nineteenth
- twentieth
- modernity
- narrative
- social criticism
- realism
- romance
- romantic
- subjectivity
- jane austen
- emily bront?
- charles dickens
- george eliot
- james joyce
- salman rushdie
- eighteenth century
- nineteenth century
- twentieth century
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This OER is part of OCW: Topics in Philosophy: David Lewis
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This OER is part of OCW: Topics in Philosophy: David Lewis
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Inherited Tag(s):
- linguistics and philosophy
- counterfactuals
- comparative possibility
- counterfactual dependence
- time
- causation
- causal explanation
- probability
- subjectivity
- objectivity
- chance
- hume
- supervenience
- decision theory
- prisoners? dilemma
- newcomb problem
- free will
- determinism
- plurality of worlds
- possible worlds
- time travel
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- english literature
- novel
- 18th century
- 19th century
- 20th century
- eighteenth
- nineteenth
- twentieth
- modernity
- narrative
- social criticism
- realism
- romance
- romantic
- subjectivity
- jane austen
- emily bront?
- charles dickens
- george eliot
- james joyce
- salman rushdie
- eighteenth century
- nineteenth century
- twentieth century
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- 20th century
- eighteenth
- nineteenth
- twentieth
- modernity
- narrative
- social criticism
- realism
- romance
- romantic
- subjectivity
- jane austen
- emily bront?
- charles dickens
- george eliot
- james joyce
- salman rushdie
- eighteenth century
- nineteenth century
- twentieth century
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- narrative
- social criticism
- realism
- romance
- romantic
- subjectivity
- jane austen
- emily bront?
- charles dickens
- george eliot
- james joyce
- salman rushdie
- eighteenth century
- nineteenth century
- twentieth century
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- 20th century
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- nineteenth
- twentieth
- modernity
- narrative
- social criticism
- realism
- romance
- romantic
- subjectivity
- jane austen
- emily bront?
- charles dickens
- george eliot
- james joyce
- salman rushdie
- eighteenth century
- nineteenth century
- twentieth century
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- nineteenth
- twentieth
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- narrative
- social criticism
- realism
- romance
- romantic
- subjectivity
- jane austen
- emily bront?
- charles dickens
- george eliot
- james joyce
- salman rushdie
- eighteenth century
- nineteenth century
- twentieth century
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