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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.
At the heart of David Lewis's modal realism are six central doctrines about possible worlds: [3] 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.
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 · Such analyses became popular after the publication of David Lewis’s (1973b) theory and alongside the development in the 1970s of possible world semantics for counterfactuals. Intense discussion over forty years has cast doubt on the adequacy of any simple analysis of singular causation in terms of counterfactuals.
Apr 26, 2024 · 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 ). Both Lewis’s father and his mother taught government at Oberlin College.
Oct 16, 2001 · David Lewis, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Philosophy who was a leading figure in his field, died suddenly on Sunday from complications due to diabetes. He was 60. Lewis came to Princeton as an associate professor in 1970.
12 - David Lewis: On the Plurality of Worlds. By. Phillip Bricker. Edited by. John Shand. Chapter. Get access. Cite. Summary. The notion of a possible world is familiar from Leibniz's philosophy, especially the idea – parodied by Voltaire in Candide – that the world we inhabit, the actual world, is the best of all possible worlds.
