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9780192845443

Perspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis

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    9780192845443

  • ISBN10:

    0192845446

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2022-10-07
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Helen Beebee, University of Leeds,A. R. J. Fisher, University of Washington

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.

Table of Contents


1. Introduction, Helen Beebee and A.R.J. Fisher
2. Modal Angst or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Modal Realism, John Heil
3. The Problem of Metaphysical Omniscience, Wolfgang Schwarz
4. Plenitude and Recombination, Alastair Wilson
5. Why Lewis Would Have Rejected Grounding, Fraser MacBride and Frederique Janssen-Lauret
6. Carnap's Second Aufbau and David Lewis s Aufbau, David J. Chalmers
7. Lewis: Metaphysics First, Frank Jackson
8. Naturalness, Arbitrariness, and Serious Ontology, A.R.J. Fisher
9. Two Kinds of Platonism and Categorial Semantics, John Bigelow and Martin Leckey
10. David Lewis and His Place in the History of Formal Semantics, Angelika Kratzer
11. The Genesis of Lewis's Counterfactual Analysis of Causation, Helen Beebee
12. What Would Lewis Do?, Daniel Nolan
13. Paradoxes of Time Travel to the Future, Sara Bernstein
14. Lewis on Time Travel, Jonathan Bennett

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