Perspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis

Herausgeber: Beebee, Helen; Fisher, A R J

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers philosophical perspectives on the work of David K. Lewis, one of the most important analytic philosophers of the twentieth century. Leading philosophers of today discuss his contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, semantics, and ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 167mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780192845443
• ISBN-10: 0192845446
• Artikelnr.: 66114089

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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