A companion to David Lewis /

"Brings together outstanding Lewis scholars and leading philosophers to explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's seminal and wide-ranging work in original ways"--

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Group Author: Loewer, Barry; Schaffer, Jonathan
Published: John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
Publisher Address: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA :
Publication Dates: 2015.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 57
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118398593
Summary: "Brings together outstanding Lewis scholars and leading philosophers to explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's seminal and wide-ranging work in original ways"--
Item Description: Machine generated contents note: Notes on Contributors ix Part I Biography and New Work 1 1 Intellectual Biography of David Lewis (1941-2001): Early Influences 3 Stephanie R. Lewis 2 Counterparts of States of Affairs 15 David Lewis 3 Reply to Dana Scott, "Is There Life on Possible Worlds?" 18 David Lewis Part II Methodology and Context 23 4 Lewis's Philosophical Method 25 Daniel Nolan 5 On Metaphysical Analysis 40 David Braddon-Mitchell and Kristie Miller 6 A Lewisian History of Philosophy 60 Robert Pasnau 7 David Lewis's Place in Analytic Philosophy 80 Scott Soames Part III Metaphysics and
Carrier Form: 1 online resource.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781118388181 (hardback)
1118388186 (hardback)
9781118607619 (epub)
1118607619 (epub)
9781118398616 (adobe pdf)
1118398610 (adobe pdf)
9781118398593
1118398599
Index Number: B945
CLC: B712.59