Philosophers often talk about possible worlds. Is this just a way of describing counterfactual situations? As Helen Beebee explains, some of them believe that possible worlds actually exist. This episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast is supported by the Marc Sanders Foundation and by Patreon donations.
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I'm pretty sure that you're listening to me speak right now, but presumably you could have chosen to do something else.
Presumably you could have decided to go shopping instead.
What other worlds are possible?
Is it possible to imagine that rather than listening to philosophy bites, you chose instead to buy a one way ticket to North Korea?
Helen Beebe is fascinated by possible worlds.
Helen Beebe, welcome to philosophy Bites.
Hi Nigel.
It's great to be here.
The topic we're going to focus on is possible worlds.
That sounds like something out of science fiction.