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Perspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis [Hardback]

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  • Format: Hardback, 284 pages, height x width x depth: 240x161x21 mm, weight: 582 g
  • Pub. Date: 07-Jul-2022
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0192845446
  • ISBN-13: 9780192845443
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  • Format: Hardback, 284 pages, height x width x depth: 240x161x21 mm, weight: 582 g
  • Pub. Date: 07-Jul-2022
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0192845446
  • ISBN-13: 9780192845443
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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.
Preface vii
List of Contributors
ix
1 Introduction
1(12)
Helen Beebee
A.R.J. Fisher
2 Modal Angst or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Modal Realism
13(10)
John Heil
3 The Problem of Metaphysical Omniscience
23(18)
Wolfgang Schwarz
4 Plenitude and Recombination
41(25)
Alastair Wilson
5 Why Lewis Would Have Rejected Grounding
66(26)
Fraser MacBride
Frederique Janssen-Lauret
6 Carnap's Second Aufbau and David Lewis's Aufbau
92(26)
David J. Chalmers
7 Lewis: Metaphysics First
118(16)
Frank Jackson
8 Naturalness, Arbitrariness, and Serious Ontology
134(20)
A.R.J. Fisher
9 Two Kinds of Platonism and Categorial Semantics
154(20)
John Bigelow
Martin Leckey
10 David Lewis and His Place in the History of Formal Semantics
174(20)
Angelika Kratzer
11 The Genesis of Lewis's Counterfactual Analysis of Causation
194(26)
Helen Beebee
12 What Would Lewis Do?
220(21)
Daniel Nolan
13 Paradoxes of Time Travel to the Future
241(19)
Sara Bernstein
14 Lewis on Time Travel
260(9)
Jonathan Bennett
Index 269
Helen Beebee is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney. She was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, The Age of Metaphysical Revolution: David Lewis and His Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy, from 2016 to 2019. She has published books on Hume and free will, as well as an accessible introduction to philosophy with Michael Rush.

A.R.J. Fisher is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Washington. He received his PhD from Syracuse University in 2012. He specializes in metaphysics and the history of analytic philosophy. For the last five years, he has extensively studied the David Lewis Papers at Princeton University and worked on the AHRC-funded project The Age of Metaphysical Revolution: David Lewis and His Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy.