Screen LibraryPerspectives on the philosophy of David K. Lewis /
"David K. Lewis (1941-2001) was unquestionably one of the most important analytic philosophers of the twentieth century, writing papers and books, largely but not exclusively in metaphysics, that set the intellectual agenda across a huge variety of topics in the last three decades. Some twenty...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"David K. Lewis (1941-2001) was unquestionably one of the most important analytic philosophers of the twentieth century, writing papers and books, largely but not exclusively in metaphysics, that set the intellectual agenda across a huge variety of topics in the last three decades. Some twenty years after his death, this collection of essays reflects the historical importance of Lewis's work by bringing together a range of scholarly reflections on his work. The essays consider a range of topics including the nature of metaphysics, the epistemology of necessary truths, possibility, naturalness, supervenience, time travel, causation, semantics, and ethics. Several of them draw on an exciting new body of material in the Lewisian corpus, his extensive correspondence, recently published in two volumes (OUP, 2020). The wide-ranging topics of these essays illustrate the impressive extent of Lewis's thought and his reach across most areas of analytic philosophy. The chapters collected in this volume adds to the increasing literature on the philosophy of David K. Lewis and will be an important book for those examining his role in the history of analytic philosophy"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780192845443 0192845446 |
| Index Number: | B945 |
| CLC: | B081.1 |
| Call Number: | B081.1/P467 |
| Contents: |
Modal Angst or : how I stopped worrying and learned to love Modal Realism / The problem of metaphysical omniscience / Plenitude and recombination / Why Lewis would have rejected Grounding / Carnap's second Aufbau and David Lewis s Aufbau / Lewis : metaphysics first / Naturalness, arbitrariness, and serious ontology / Two kinds of Platonism and categorial semantics / David Lewis and his place in the history of formal semantics / The genesis of Lewis's counterfactual analysis of causation / What would Lewis do / Paradoxes of time travel to the future / Lewis on time travel / |