Philosophical Manuscripts

by Lewis, David; Janssen-Lauret, Frederique; Macbride, Fraser

• ISBN13: 9780192847393
• ISBN10: 0192847392
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-12-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

David Lewis, Late Class of 1943 University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University

Frederique Janssen-Lauret is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Manchester, specialising in philosophical logic and history of analytic philosophy. She was previously a research fellow on the AHRC-funded project 'The Age of Metaphysical Revolution: David Lewis and His Place in the History
of Analytic Philosophy'. She is co-translator of Quine's The Significance of the New Logic (Cambridge University Press 2018) and has published papers on philosophical logic, Lewis, Quine, and Stebbing in Synthese, The Monist, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Journal for the History of Analytical
Philosophy, and in volumes published by Oxford, Cambridge, and Palgrave.

Fraser MacBride is currently Chair of Logic & Metaphysics at the University of Manchester. He was previously the Chair of Logic and Rhetoric at Glasgow University and held a Readership at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of On the Genealogy of Universal: The Metaphysical Origins of
Analytic Philosophy (OUP) and was awarded a Leverhulme Prize for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics. He was Co-Investigator on the AHRC funded project 'The Age of Metaphysical Revolution: David Lewis and His Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy' and has published papers
on Lewis's relationship to Armstrong, Quine, and Carnap.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction, Frederique Janssen-Lauret and Fraser MacBride
An Intellectual Biography Of The Young David Lewis, Frederique Janssen-Lauret and Fraser MacBride
Philosophical Manuscripts
Part I: The Paradoxes of Time Travel: The Gavin David Young Lectures at the University of Adelaide (1971
I.1. Time Travel without Hyperkinesis
I.2. Mapping Exercise
I.3. Personal Identity and Personal Time
I.4. Reversed Causation
I.5. Changing the Past: Failure
I.6. Changing the Past: Success
Part II: Confirmation Theory (1969)
II.0. Intensional Semantics
II.1. Probability Measures
II.2. Rational Belief: Statistics
II.3. Rational Belief: Kinematics
II.4. Scientific Method
II.5. Principles of Indierence
II.6. Carnap's u-system: One Family
II.7. Carnap's u-system: Many Families
II.8. Hintikka's u--system
Part III: Short Posthumously Published Papers (1965-2001)
1. Particular and General Causal Claims (ca. 1965-66)
2. On the Nature of Certain Nonidentities: A Reply to Montague (1968)
3. Reply to Sommers (1969)
4. Contagion without Rigidity (1971)
5. Counterfactual Probability (1971)
6. Reply to Davidson (1972)
7. Insatiable Quantifiers (1972)
8. Counterfactual and Objective Probability (1973)
9. Counterpart Theory Mk. II (1974)
10. To the Thursday Logic Seminar (1976)
11. Reply to Pollock (1979)
12. Supervenience of Chances (1979)
13. Reply to Adams (1979)
14. From Phenomenal to Epiphenomenal (1981)
15. The Monty Hall Problem (ca. 1982)
16. Richter's Problem (1983)
17. Russian Roulette (1984)
18. Mass and Value (1985)
19. De Se Detectivism (1986)
20. A Fifth Solution to the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics (ca. 1987)
21. Acceptance Speech for the Behrman Award (1991)
22. Reply to Cresswell (1991)
23. Exclusion (1991)
24. Modal Demifictionalism (1994)
25. Merlin and Morgana (1999)
26. Reply to Martin's reply (1999)
27. Nihil Obstat: An Analysis of Ability (2001)
28. Divine Evil (2001)
29. Double Explanation by Double Having (2001)
30. Jack Is Unprovable (2001)
31. You Can't Win (2001)