A companion to David Lewis / edited by Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer.
"Brings together outstanding Lewis scholars and leading philosophers to explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's seminal and wide-ranging work in original ways"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Wiley Blackwell, 2015. ©2015. |
| Series: | Blackwell companions to philosophy ;
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Table of Contents:
- Intellectual Biography of David Lewis (1941-2001): Early Influences / Stephanie R. Lewis
- Counterparts of States of Affairs / David Lewis
- Reply to Dana Scott, "Is There Life on Possible Worlds?" / David Lewis
- Lewis's Philosophical Method / Daniel Nolan
- On Metaphysical Analysis / David Braddon-Mitchell and Kristie Miller
- A Lewisian History of Philosophy / Robert Pasnau
- David Lewis's Place in Analytic Philosophy / Scott Soames
- Humean Supervenience / Brian Weatherson
- No Work for a Theory of Universals / M. Eddon and C.J.G. Meacham
- Hume's Dictum and Metaphysical Modality: Lewis's Combinatorialism / Jessica Wilson
- Truthmaking: With and Without Counterpart Theory / Phillip Bricker
- How to Be Humean / Jenann Ismael
- Where (in Logical Space) Is God? / Stephanie R. Lewis
- De Re Modality, Essentialism, and Lewis's Humeanism / Helen Beebee and Fraser MacBride
- David Lewis on Persistence / Katherine Hawley
- "Perfectly Understood, Unproblematic, and Certain": Lewis on Mereology / Karen Bennett
- Humean Reductionism about Laws of Nature / Ned Hall
- Why Lewisians Should Love Deterministic Chance / Rachael Briggs
- Lewis on Causation / Christopher Hitchcock
- David Lewis on Convention / Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone
- Asking What a Meaning Does: David Lewis's Contributions to Semantics / Barbara H. Partee
- Accommodation in a Language Game / Craige Roberts
- Lewis on Reference and Eligibility / J.R.G. Williams
- On the Nature of Certain Philosophical Entities: Set Theoretic Constructionalism in the Metaphysics of David Lewis / Gideon Rosen
- Primitive Self-Ascription: Lewis on the De Se / Richard Holton
- Counterfactuals and Humean Reduction / Robert Stalnaker
- On the Plurality of Lewis's Triviality Result / Alan Hajek
- Decision Theory after Lewis / John Collins
- Lewis on Mereology and Set Theory / John P. Burgess
- Lewis on Knowledge Ascriptions / Jonathan Schaffer
- Humility and Coexistence in Kant and Lewis: Two Modal Themes, with Variations / Rae Langton
- Analytic Functionalism / Wolfgang Schwarz
- Lewis on Materialism and Experience / Daniel Stoljar
- Lewis on Value and Valuing / Peter Railton
- David Lewis's Social and Political Philosophy / Simon Keller.