Philosophical Letters of David K. Lewis Volume 1: Causation, Modality, Ontology

by Beebee, Helen; Fisher, A.R.J.

• ISBN13: 9780198855453
• ISBN10: 0198855451
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192597618
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-12-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Helen Beebee, University of Manchester,A.R.J. Fisher, University of Manchester

Helen Beebee is the Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester 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 -- Philosophy: Why it Matters (with Michael Rush, Polity 2019).


A.R.J. Fisher is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. 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 has 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

Introduction
Letters
Part 1: Causation
Part 2: Modality
Part 3: Ontology