What are centered worlds?

• Main Author: Liao, Shen-yi.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102021; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18868
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

David Lewis argues that centered worlds give us a way to capture de se, or self-locating, contents in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. In recent years, centered worlds have also gained other uses in areas ranging widely from metaphysics to ethics. In this paper, I raise a problem for c...