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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.
Jan 5, 2010 · 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 philosophy of mind.
Modal realism is the view propounded by philosopher David Lewis that all possible worlds are real in the same way as is the actual world: they are "of a kind with this world of ours." [1] .
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.
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.
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. Contextualism vs. Invariantism
