Search in the writings of David Lewis

• On the Plurality of Worlds (1986)
  • p.133: …surprising than it was before . 2. 8 The Incredulous Stare I once complained that my modal realism met…
  • p.133: …with many incredulous stares, but few argued objections . (Counterfactuals, page 8 6 . ) The arguments were…
  • p.133: …. They lead at worst to standoffs. The incredulous stares remain. They remain unanswerable. But they remain…
  • p.135: …yourself cannot believe in your least philosophical and most commonsensical moments . The incredulous…
  • p.135: …stare is a gesture meant to say that modal realism fails the test. That is a matter of judgement…
  • p.165: …the incredulous stares that greet my own plurality of worlds. But if, fully aware of its advantages and…
  Source: David Lewis (1986): On the Plurality of Worlds. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers
• Philosophical Letters, Volume 1
  • p.389: …defiance of the incredulous stare in 2.8. I can believe in the many worlds and carry on just as before…
  • p.416: …I have against it is an incredulous stare – and that's enough, I reckon. Reading Priest is a lesson…
  • p.426: …that what evokes the incredulous stare is just a matter of pronunciation. So far as lack of parsimony…
  • p.627: …translations. I think incredulous stares are a pretty good reason (though not literally an argument…
  Source: Helen Beebee and A.R.J. Fisher (eds.): Philosophical Letters of David K. Lewis, Volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020
• Counterfactuals (1973)
  • p.86: …arguments can be given against realism about possible worlds? I have met with few arguments-incredulous…
  • p.86: …stares are more common. But I shall try to answer those that I have heard. It is said that realism…
  Source: David Lewis (1973): Counterfactuals. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers