Information, possible worlds and the cooptation of scepticism

Synthese

Volumn 175, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 63-88

  Floridi, Luciano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borel numbers; David Lewis; Hamming distance; Informational scepticism; Levenshtein distance; Modal metrics; Philosophy of information; Possible worlds; Scepticism; Semantic information

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956132965     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-010-9736-0     Document Type: Article

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