Add to ORKGIn the wake of David Lewis’s seminal paper ‘New Work for a Theory of Universals’ (1983), a certain use of the word ‘natural ’ has become widespread in metaphysics and beyond. In this usage, properties can be classified as more or less natural, with perfectly natural properties as a limiting case. For example, Lewis would claim tha
The perfectly natural properties and relations are special – they are all and only those that “carve...
David Lewis may be regarded as an antiessentialist. The reason is that he is said to believe that in...
Many writers have held that in his later work, David Lewis adopted a theory of predicate meaning suc...
This paper is about naturalness in Lewis’s sense. It motivates the need for a notion of relative nat...
The interpretation of Lewis‘s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversia...
Since the publication of David Lewis's ''New Work for a Theory of Universals,'' the distinction betw...
The interpretation of Lewis‘s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversial, especia...
The interpretation of Lewis\u2018s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversial, es...
Ever since David Lewis argued for the indispensibility of natural properties, they have become a sta...
Over the last thirty years there have been a number of attempts to analyse the distinction between i...
The perfectly natural properties and relations are special—they are all and only those that "carve n...
Lewis's notion of a "natural" property has proved divisive: some have taken to the notion with enthu...
In traditional philosophical discussions, the following sorts of entities have been treated as parad...
Over the last thirty years there have been a number of attempts to analyse the distinction between i...
Nothing seems more obvious than that our words have meaning. When people speak to each other, they e...
The perfectly natural properties and relations are special – they are all and only those that “carve...
David Lewis may be regarded as an antiessentialist. The reason is that he is said to believe that in...
Many writers have held that in his later work, David Lewis adopted a theory of predicate meaning suc...
This paper is about naturalness in Lewis’s sense. It motivates the need for a notion of relative nat...
The interpretation of Lewis‘s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversia...
Since the publication of David Lewis's ''New Work for a Theory of Universals,'' the distinction betw...
The interpretation of Lewis‘s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversial, especia...
The interpretation of Lewis\u2018s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversial, es...
Ever since David Lewis argued for the indispensibility of natural properties, they have become a sta...
Over the last thirty years there have been a number of attempts to analyse the distinction between i...
The perfectly natural properties and relations are special—they are all and only those that "carve n...
Lewis's notion of a "natural" property has proved divisive: some have taken to the notion with enthu...
In traditional philosophical discussions, the following sorts of entities have been treated as parad...
Over the last thirty years there have been a number of attempts to analyse the distinction between i...
Nothing seems more obvious than that our words have meaning. When people speak to each other, they e...
The perfectly natural properties and relations are special – they are all and only those that “carve...
David Lewis may be regarded as an antiessentialist. The reason is that he is said to believe that in...
Many writers have held that in his later work, David Lewis adopted a theory of predicate meaning suc...