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   What did David Lewis contribute to philosophy?

   • 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.

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   Was David Lewis a generalist?

   • 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.

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   Who was David Lewis?

   • One of the most interesting and influential analytic philosophers of the 20th cen-tury, 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 phi-losophy of mind.

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   Why was Lewis important in the philosophy of mind?

   • In the philosophy of mind, Lewis gave an important defense of mind-brain identity theory, and also developed an account of mental content that was based on his metaphysics of properties and modality.

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2. plato.stanford.edu › entries › david-lewisDavid Lewis - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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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.

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   Lewis made significant contributions in philosophy of mind, philosophy of probability, epistemology, philosophical logic, aesthetics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of time and philosophy of science. In most of these fields he is considered among the most important figures of recent decades.

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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. He made central contributions in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind.

5. plato.stanford.edu › entries › lewis-metaphysicsDavid Lewis’s Metaphysics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   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.

6. www.ed.ac.uk › sites › defaultThe Philosophy of David Lewis - The University of Edinburgh

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   He made significant contributions to philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, decision theory, epistemology, metaethics and aesthetics, and most significantly to philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics.

7. dash.harvard.edu › bitstream › handleDavid Lewis's Metaphysics - Harvard University

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   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.

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   David Lewis (1941-2001) was one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the twentieth century. He made substantial contributions to philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, epistemology, decision theory, and most significantly metaphysics.