Ep. 240: David Lewis on Possible Worlds and Language Games (Part One)

On Ch. 4 of Lewis's book Counterfactuals (1973) and the essays “Scorekeeping in a Language Game” (1979) and “Truth in Fiction” (1978). What makes a sentence about possibility true? Lewis thinks that we need possible worlds that really exist in order to make sense of our modal intuitions. He uses this possible-world talk to make sense of conversations and the worlds created by fiction writers. With guest Matt Teichman from Elucidations. Please support PEL! The post Ep. 240: David Lewis on Possible Worlds and Language Games (Part One) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.