Perspectives on the philosophy of David K. Lewis /

This volume is a collection of essays on new perspectives on the philosophy of David Lewis. The main topics under discussion come from major areas of analytic philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, language, and ethics. Specifically, the chapters discuss the metaphysics and epist...

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Preface --
List of Contributors --
1. Introduction /
2. Modal Angst or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Modal Realism /
3. The Problem of Metaphysical Omniscience /
4. Plenitude and Recombination /
5. Why Lewis Would Have Rejected Grounding /
6. Carnap's Second Aufbau and David Lewis's Aufbau /
7. Lewis: Metaphysics First /
8. Naturalness, Arbitrariness, and Serious Ontology /
9. Two Kinds of Platonism and Categorial Semantics /
10. David Lewis and His Place in the History of Formal Semantics /
11. The Genesis of Lewis's Counterfactual Analysis of Causation /
12. What Would Lewis Do? /
13. Paradoxes of Time Travel to the Future /
14. Lewis on Time Travel /
Index.
Hauptverfasser:
Beebee, Helen, Fisher, A. R. J. (HerausgeberIn)
Weitere Verfasser:
Beebee, Helen (HerausgeberIn)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Zusammenfassung:
This volume is a collection of essays on new perspectives on the philosophy of David Lewis. The main topics under discussion come from major areas of analytic philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, language, and ethics. Specifically, the chapters discuss the metaphysics and epistemology of modality, the status of grounding, the significance of Humean supervenience, the role of conceptual analysis, naturalness and properties, semantics, the history of the counterfactual theory of causation, Lewis's views in ethics, and his account of time travel. The authors draw from Lewis's recently published correspondence to support their interpretation of his philosophy and his place in the history of analytic philosophy. This volume will expand on scholarship on Lewis and further his influence on current debates.
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1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations (colour).
Also available in Print and PDF edition.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780191937644
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780192845443.001.0001
Schlagworte:
Lewis, David K. > (David Kellogg), > 1941-2001 > Correspondence.
Lewis, David K. > (David Kellogg), > 1941-2001 > Philosophy.
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