Search in the writings of David Lewis

• On the Plurality of Worlds (1986)
  • p.133: …the explanandum much more surprising than it was before . 2. 8 The Incredulous Stare I once…
  • p.135: …yourself cannot believe in your least philosophical and most commonsensical moments . The incredulous…
  • p.135: …stare is a gesture meant to say that modal realism fails the test. That is a matter of judgement and…
  Source: David Lewis (1986): On the Plurality of Worlds. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers
• Philosophical Letters, Volume 1
  • p.389: …my philosophy', are essential to support my defiance of the incredulous stare in 2.8. I can believe…
  • p.416: …stalemate. All I have against it is an incredulous stare – and that's enough, I reckon. Reading…
  • p.426: …them'. So it seems that what evokes the incredulous stare is just a matter of pronunciation. So far as…
  Source: Helen Beebee and A.R.J. Fisher (eds.): Philosophical Letters of David K. Lewis, Volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020