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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.
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.
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. Contextualism vs. Invariantism
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.
Summary. David Lewis's work is among the most influential in many areas of contemporary philosophy, but much of his influence has been as a “philosopher's philosopher”: his main impact to date has been on the work of other professional philosophers.
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.
