...This book is devoted to a critical evaluation of a project of philosophical methodology and analysis known colloquially as the “Canberra Plan.” The original driving forces behind the project were David Lewis and Frank Jackson, and the many people who were associated with the Philosophy Program...

... with philosophical naturalism; prominent and influential proponents of this methodology include the late David Lewis, Frank Jackson, Michael Smith, Philip Pettit, and David Armstrong. Naturalistic analysis (sometimes known as the “Canberra Plan” because many of its proponents have been associated with the Australian...

...This chapter presents a take on the doctrine of revelation. Arguments from revelation are set out, after which, David Lewis’s response to this argument, together with related responses, is discussed. The “Canberra Plan,” at least in philosophy, is constitutively connected to compromise; it is often...

...This chapter presents a double agenda, the topics of which share a complementary nature. The first agendum is to shed light on some issues relating to the “Canberra Plan,” while focusing not on generic issues but on matters specific to the distinctively evaluative and normative domain of ethics...