The cardinality objection to David Lewis's modal realism

Authors
Citation
Ar. Pruss, The cardinality objection to David Lewis's modal realism, PHILOS STUD, 104(2), 2001, pp. 169-178
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Philosiphy
Journal title
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
ISSN journal
00318116 → ACNP
Volume
104
Issue
2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
169 - 178
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-8116(200105)104:2<169:TCOTDL>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
According to David Lewis's extreme modal realism, every way that a world co uld be is a way that some concretely existing physical world really is. But if the worlds are physical entities, then there should be a set of all wor lds, whereas I show that in fact the collection of all possible worlds is n ot a set. The latter conclusion remains true even outside of the Lewisian f ramework.