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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.
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.
Jan 5, 2010 · 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 philosophy of mind.
David Kellogg Lewis (born September 28, 1941, Oberlin, Ohio, U.S.—died October 14, 2001, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American philosopher who, at the time of his death, was considered by many to be the leading figure in Anglo-American philosophy (see analytic philosophy).
At the heart of David Lewis's modal realism are six central doctrines about possible worlds: Possible worlds exist – they are just as real as our world. Possible worlds are the same sort of things as our world – they differ in content, not in kind.
David K. Lewis. Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University. Verified email at lists.berkeley.edu. Metaphysics epistemology logic language mind.
Lewis was the author of countless articles, four books and five volumes of collected papers. His contributions span every part of philosophy, from logic and the philosophy of mathematics to ethics and the philosophy of literature.
Oct 16, 2021 · David Lewis was one of the greatest minds of the 20 th century, though few outside academia know much about him. By the time of his death in 2001, he was the greatest systematic...
David Lewis is probably best known among philosophers for making grand metaphysics and systematic theory building fashionable again. Lewis made numerous and significant contributions to the philosophical world.
