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Product Description: Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Lewis analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination problems-situations characterized by interdependent decision processes in which common interests are at stake...read more
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9780631232568 | Blackwell Pub, May 24, 2002, cover price $128.95 | About this edition: Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969.
9780674170254, titled "Convention: A Philosophical Study," | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1969, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969.

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9780631232575 | Blackwell Pub, May 24, 2002, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969.
9780674170261 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1987), cover price $14.50 | About this edition: Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969.

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Product Description: 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. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780631224969 | Blackwell Pub, February 15, 2001, cover price $128.95 | About this edition: 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.

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9780631224266 | Blackwell Pub, February 15, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: 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.
9780631139942 | Blackwell Pub, April 1, 1986, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: One of America's most infuential philosophers offers his defence of modal realism.

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Product Description: Counterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fact conditionals, including his famous defense of realism about possible worlds. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780631224952 | Blackwell Pub, January 24, 2001, cover price $120.95 | About this edition: Counterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fact conditionals, including his famous defense of realism about possible worlds.
9780674175402 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 1, 1973, cover price $10.00

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9780631224259 | Blackwell Pub, January 24, 2001, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Counterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fact conditionals, including his famous defense of realism about possible worlds.
9780674175419 | Reissue edition (Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 1987), cover price $12.95

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Product Description: This third volume of Lewis' papers is devoted to his work in ethics and social philosophy. Topics covered include the logic of obligation and permission; decision theory and its relation to the idea that beliefs might play the motivating role of desires; a subjectivist analysis of value; dilemmas in virtue ethics; the problem of evil; problems about self-prediction; social coordination, linguistic and otherwise; alleged duties to rescue distant strangers; toleration as a tacit treaty; nuclear warfare; and punishment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521582490 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $109.00 | About this edition: This third volume of Lewis' papers is devoted to his work in ethics and social philosophy.

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9780521587860 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $41.00 | About this edition: This third volume of Lewis' papers is devoted to his work in ethics and social philosophy.

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Product Description: This is part of a three-volume collection of most of David Lewis' papers in philosophy, except for those that previously appeared in his Philosophical Papers (Oxford University Press, 1983 and 1986). They are now offered in a readily accessible form...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521582483 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $121.00 | About this edition: This is part of a three-volume collection of most of David Lewis' papers in philosophy, except for those that previously appeared in his Philosophical Papers (Oxford University Press, 1983 and 1986).

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9780521587877 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This is part of a three-volume collection of most of David Lewis' papers in philosophy, except for those that previously appeared in his Philosophical Papers (Oxford University Press, 1983 and 1986).

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Product Description: This is the first of a three-volume collection of David Lewis' most recent papers in all the areas to which he has made significant contributions. This first volume is devoted to Lewis' work on philosophical logic from the past twenty-five years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521582476 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This is the first of a three-volume collection of David Lewis' most recent papers in all the areas to which he has made significant contributions.

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9780521587884 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: This is the first of a three-volume collection of David Lewis' most recent papers in all the areas to which he has made significant contributions.

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9780891120155 | Abilene Christian Univ Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: Does the notion of part and whole have any application to classes? Lewis argues that it does, and that the smallest parts of any class are its one-membered "singleton" subclasses. That results in a reconception of set theory. The set-theoretical making of one out of many is just the composition of one whole out of many parts...read more
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9780631176558 | Blackwell Pub, January 1, 1991, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Does the notion of part and whole have any application to classes?

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9780631176565 | Blackwell Pub, September 2, 1991, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Does the notion of part and whole have any application to classes?

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Product Description: This second collection of essays by Lewis focuses on causation, probability, dependence and decision, and several other related topics. The thirteen papers are a major contribution to philosophy by one of the most influential and imaginative of contemporary American philosophers...read more
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9780195036459 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 26, 1987, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This second collection of essays by Lewis focuses on causation, probability, dependence and decision, and several other related topics.
9780195032031 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 23, 1983, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This second collection of essays by Lewis focuses on causation, probability, dependence and decision, and several other related topics.

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9780195036466 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 26, 1987, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This is the second volume of philosophical essays by one of the most innovative and influential philosophers now writing in English.
9780195032048 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 23, 1983, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Eleven of the papers in this volume were originally published from 1972 to 1981; misprints apart, they are reprinted in their original form.

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