Two Concepts of Possible Worlds - or Only One?

Clinical practice and epidemiology: two worlds or one?

Two Worlds or One: Complementarity in the Dialogue between Religion

In the dialogue between science and the spiritual, prior metaphysical commitments can radically alter the ground of discussion. I survey the effect of certain metaphysical commitments on the dialogue between science and religion, noting that commitments which appear to favor some sort of dualism, entailing a strict separation between the realm of science and the realm of the spiritual, seem to ...

Motoneuron double discharges: only one or two different entities?

INTRODUCTION The firing behavior of spinal motoneurons is controlled by a complex interplay between the synaptic inputs that they receive and the intrinsic properties of motoneurons. In particular, the longlasting afterhyperpolarization which follows each motoneuron spike was found to be an important mechanism in the regulation of repetitive firing behavior (Kernell, 1965, 2006). As a result, m...

Possible Worlds

No formula binds me in this so-called opening address, but it is more usual for the speaker to trace the historical evolution of some part of that, branch of medicine of which he is a devotee. Looking back in recent years, I find that this field has been so often cultivated, albeit by a rotation of crops, that I feel it should lie fallow for a while. I might, in a popular address, recount the c...

Possible Worlds II: Nonreductive Theories of Possible Worlds

I briefly discussed a view (see (Lewis, 1986)) which attempts to use (SC) to provide a theory of possible worlds aimed at using (SC) to reduce modality. This review sets aside such reductive theories of possible worlds, and concentrates instead on four leading nonreductive theories. Though some of these theories have reductive variants, the versions that figure most prominently in contemporary ...