A companion to David Lewis

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In _A Companion to David Lewis_, Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer bring together top philosophers to explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's seminal work in original ways. Students and scholars will discover the underlying themes and complex interconnections woven through the diverse range of his work in metaphysics, philosophy of language, logic, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. The first and only comprehensive study of the work of David Lewis, one of the most systematic and influential philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century Contributions shed light on the underlying themes and complex interconnections woven through Lewis's work across his enormous range of influence, including metaphysics, language, logic, epistemology, science, mind, ethics, and aesthetics Outstanding Lewis scholars and leading philosophers working in the fields Lewis influenced explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's work in original ways An essential resource for students and researchers across analytic philosophy that covers the major themes of Lewis's work

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B945.L4554.C66 2015

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On Metaphysical Analysis.David Braddon-Mitchell & Kristie Miller
Primitive Self-Ascription: Lewis on the De Se.Richard Holton
Intellectual Biography of David Lewis (1941–2001).  (pages 1–14)Stephanie R. Lewis
Counterparts of States of Affairs.  (pages 15–17)David Lewis
Reply to Dana Scott, “Is There Life on Possible Worlds?”.  (pages 18–21)David Lewis
Lewis's Philosophical Method.  (pages 23–39)Daniel Nolan
Lewis's Philosophical Method.  (pages 25-39)Daniel Nolan
On Metaphysical Analysis.  (pages 40–59)David Braddon-Mitchell & Kristie Miller
A Lewisian History of Philosophy.  (pages 60–79)Robert Pasnau
David Lewis's Place in Analytic Philosophy.  (pages 80–98)Scott Soames
Humean Supervenience.  (pages 99–115)Brian Weatherson
No Work For a Theory of Universals.  (pages 116-137)M. Eddon & Christopher J. G. Meacham
Hume's Dictum and Metaphysical Modality.  (pages 138–158)Jessica Wilson
Hume's Dictum and metaphysical modality: Lewis's combinatorialism.  (pages 138-158)Jessica M. Wilson
David Lewis’s Place in Analytic Philosophy.  (pages 139-166)Scott Soames
Truthmaking: With and Without Counterpart Theory.  (pages 159–187)Phillip Bricker
How to Be Humean.  (pages 188–205)Jenann Ismael
Where (in Logical Space) Is God?  (pages 206–219)Stephanie R. Lewis
De Re Modality, Essentialism, and Lewis's Humeanism.  (pages 220–236)Helen Beebee & Fraser MacBride
David Lewis on Persistence.  (pages 237–249)Katherine Hawley
Perfectly Understood, Unproblematic, and Certain.  (pages 250–261)Karen Bennett
Humean Reductionism about Laws of Nature.  (pages 262–277)Ned Hall
Why Lewisians Should Love Deterministic Chance.  (pages 278–294)Rachael Briggs
Lewis on Causation.  (pages 295–311)Christopher Hitchcock
David Lewis on Convention.  (pages 313–327)Ernie Lepore & Matthew Stone
Asking What a Meaning Does.  (pages 328–344)Barbara H. Partee
Accommodation in a Language Game.  (pages 345–366)Craige Roberts
Lewis on Reference and Eligibility.  (pages 367-382)J. R. G. Williams
Lewis on Reference and Eligibility.  (pages 367–381)J. R. G. Williams
On the Nature of Certain Philosophical Entities.  (pages 382–398)Gideon Rosen
On the Nature of Certain Philosophical Entities - Set Theoretic Constructionalism in the Metaphysics of David Lewis.  (pages 382-398)Gideon Rosen
Primitive Self‐Ascription.  (pages 399–410)Richard Holton
Counterfactuals and Humean Reduction.  (pages 411–424)Robert Stalnaker
On the Plurality of Lewis's Triviality Results.  (pages 425–445)Alan Hájek
Decision Theory After Lewis.  (pages 446-458)John Collins
Lewis on Mereology and Set Theory.  (pages 459–469)John P. Burgess
Lewis on Knowledge Ascriptions.  (pages 471–490)Jonathan Schaffer
Humility and Coexistence in Kant and Lewis.  (pages 491–503)Rae Langton
Analytic Functionalism.  (pages 504–518)Wolfgang Schwarz
Lewis on Materialism and Experience.  (pages 519–532)Daniel Stoljar
Lewis on Value and Valuing.  (pages 533–548)Peter Railton
David Lewis's Social and Political Philosophy.  (pages 549–561)Simon Keller

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Barry Loewer
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