Works
- A Theory of Conditionals, in Studies in Logical Theory, edited by Nicholas Rescher, 1968
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Known for
An MIT philosopher whose 1968 paper gave conditionals a possible-worlds semantics: 'if A, then B' is true when B holds in the world most similar to ours in which A holds. With David Lewis's account it forms the Stalnaker-Lewis theory of counterfactuals.