Chance and Actuality

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Abstract

The relation between chance and actuality gives rise to a puzzle. On the one hand, it may be a chancy matter what will actually happen. On the other hand, the standard semantics for ‘actually’ implies that sentences beginning with ‘actually’ are never contingent. To elucidate the puzzle, I defend a kind of objective semantic indeterminacy: in a chancy world, it may be a chancy matter which proposition is expressed by sentences containing ‘actually’. I bring this thesis to bear on certain counter-examples, proposed by Hawthorne and Lasonen-Aarnio, to Lewis' ‘principal principle’.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)105-129
Seitenumfang24
FachzeitschriftThe Philosophical Quarterly
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2011
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

Scopus 78650647036
ORCID /0000-0002-9962-2074/work/142234602

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