creators_name: Franceschi, Paul type: preprint datestamp: 2007-04-26 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:50 metadata_visibility: show title: A Brief Introduction to N-universes subjects: phil-sci full_text_status: public keywords: n-universes, thought experiment, time, space, Occam's razor abstract: I describe in this paper the basic elements of the n-universes, a methodological tool originally introduced in Franceschi (2001) in the context of the study of Goodman's paradox. As the n-universes can be used in wide-ranging applications, such as thought experiments, I describe them from an essentially pragmatic standpoint, i.e. by describing accurately the step-by-step process which leads to a given modelisation. date: 2007-04 date_type: published refereed: FALSE referencetext: Franceschi, Paul. 2001. A Solution to Goodman's paradox, Une solution pour le paradoxe de Goodman, Dialogue 40: 99-123, cogprints.org/2176/, English translation. Franceschi, Paul. 2002. Une application des n-univers à l'argument de l'Apocalypse et au paradoxe de Goodman, doctoral dissertation, Corté: University of Corsica, http://www.univ-corse.fr/~franceschi/index-fr.htm. Leslie, John. 1996. The End of the World: the science and ethics of human extinction, London: Routledge. citation: Franceschi, Paul (2007) A Brief Introduction to N-universes. [Preprint] document_url: http://cogprints.org/5511/1/A_Brief_Introduction_to_N-universes.pdf