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- David Lewis was an American philosopher and one of the last generalists, in the sense that he was one of the last philosophers who contributed to the great majority of sub-fields of the discipline.
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Jul 23, 2009 · David Lewis (1941–2001) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. He made significant contributions to philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, decision theory, epistemology, meta-ethics and aesthetics.
David Lewis was an American philosopher and one of the last generalists, in the sense that he was one of the last philosophers who contributed to the great majority of sub-fields of the discipline. He made central contributions in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind.
David Lewis (1941-2001) was unquestionably one of the most important analytic philosophers of the 20th century, writing papers and books – largely but not exclusively in metaphysics – that set the intellectual agenda across a huge variety of topics in the last 30 years or so of the 20th century, and still do so.
David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) was an American philosopher. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then at Princeton University from 1970 until his death. He is closely associated with Australia, whose philosophical community he visited almost annually for more than 30 years.
Aug 16, 2020 · David Kellogg Lewis was without doubt the most influential philosopher of his generation. In 2005, Daniel Nolan wrote of him that “much of his influence has been as a ‘philosopher’s philosopher’”.
- Marianna Antonutti Marfori, Pierluigi Graziani
- 2020
Nov 20, 2020 · Introducing the 2020 David Lewis Lecture, Department Chair Gideon Rosen highlighted similarities between this year’s speaker and the lecture's namesake. “David Lewis was a great philosophical generalist of sorts.
Lewis’s statement of the point is characteristically elegant: Because properties are so abundant, they are undiscriminating. Any two things share infinitely many properties, and fail to share infinitely many others. That is so whether the two things are perfect duplicates or utterly dissimilar.
