Knowledge, counterfactuals, and determinism

Philosophical Studies 172 (9):2275-2278 (2015)
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Deterministic physical theories are not beyond the reach of scientific discovery. From this fact I show that David Lewis was mistaken to think that small counterfactual perturbations from deterministic worlds involve violations of those world’s laws

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