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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 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.
Jan 5, 2010 · David Lewis’s Metaphysics. First published Tue Jan 5, 2010; substantive revision Thu Jun 24, 2021. David Lewis produced a body of philosophical writing that, in four books and scores of articles, spanned every major philosophical area, with perhaps the greatest concentration in metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and ...
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A comprehensive overview of the life and work of David Lewis, an American philosopher who made contributions to metaphysics, language, mind, and other fields. Learn about his views on modality, properties, causation, convention, and more.
I will divide the terrain into four parts: Lewis’s fundamental ontology; his theory of metaphysical modality; his “applied” metaphysics (covering such topics as laws of nature, counterfactuals, causation, identity through time, and the mind); and Lewisian methodology in meta-physics.
Jan 10, 2001 · 1. Lewis’s 1973 Counterfactual Analysis. 1.1 Counterfactuals and Causal Dependence. 1.2 The Temporal Asymmetry of Causal Dependence. 1.3 Transitivity and Preemption. 1.4 Chancy Causation. 2. Problems for Lewis’s Counterfactual Theory. 2.1 Temporal Asymmetry. 2.2 Transitivity. 2.3 Preemption. 3. Lewis’s 2000 Theory. 4.
