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| '''William G. Lycan''' (b. ], ], ]) is an ] ] teaching at the ] at ]. | |||
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| '''William G. Lycan''' (b. ], ], ]) is an ] ] teaching at the ] at ]. Before moving to UNC Lycan taught for several years at ]. His principal interests include ], ], philosophy of ], ], and ]. Lycan is an advocate of ]'s version of ], known as ''homuncular functionalism''. He is also an outspoken critic of ]. | |||
| Along with ], Lycan rejects ]'s notion of ] as metaphysically extravagant, and suggests in its place an ] interpretation of possible worlds as consistent, maximally complete sets of descriptions of or propositions about the world, so that a "possible world" is conceived of as a complete description (i.e. a set of consistent, maximal set of propositions) of a way the world could be – rather than a world which is that way. | |||
| === Education === | |||
| William Lycan received his B.A. from ] in ] while working as a ] in the ] department. His honors thesis was on "]'s Investigation of ]." He went on to receive his M.A. in ] and Ph.D. in ], both from the ]. His ] was on "Persons, Criteria, and ]." | |||
| === Publications === | |||
| * Logical Form in Natural Language (Bradford Books / MIT Press, 1984), xii + 348 pp. | |||
| * Knowing Who (with ]) (Bradford Books / MIT Press, 1986), xiv + 212 pp. | |||
| * Consciousness (Bradford Books / MIT Press, 1987), ix + 165 pp. | |||
| * Judgement and Justification (Cambridge University Press, 1988), xiii + 230 pp. | |||
| * Modality and Meaning (Kluwer Academic Publishing, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy series, 1994), xxii + 335 pp. | |||
| * Consciousness and Experience (Bradford Books / MIT Press, 1996), xx + 211 pp. | |||
| * Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Publishers, 1999), xvi + 243 pp. | |||
| * Real Conditionals (Oxford University Press, 2001), vii + 223 pp. | |||
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William G. Lycan (b. September 26, 1945, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American philosopher teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.