For 10 points, name this analytic philosopher who advanced "modal realism" in On the Plurality of Worlds.
In one paper, this philosopher muses that realism solves Nelson Goodman's new "riddle of induction" by positing "perfectly natural" properties that "carve nature at the joints." In another paper, this philosopher argues that a "rule of accommodation" distinguishes conversations from baseball, in which walking to first base after three balls does not change the count to four. This author of "New Work For a Theory of Universals" and "Scorekeeping in a Language Game" characterized reality as "a vast mosaic of local matters of particular fact." Applying the "Ramsification" procedure, this philosopher defended mind-body identity, a special case of his Humean supervenience (HYOO-mee-an "super"-VEEN-ee-ents). Statements like "Had I made that shot, our team would have won the game" are the subject of his Counterfactuals, which led him to propose the factual existence of infinite isolated universes. For 10 points, name this analytic philosopher who advanced "modal realism" in On the Plurality of Worlds.
In one paper, this philosopher muses that realism solves Nelson Goodman's new "riddle of induction" by positing "perfectly natural" properties that "carve nature at the joints.
David Kellogg Lewis