Perspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis by A. R. J. Fisher (2022, Hardcover) online kaufen

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

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Number of Pages284 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePerspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis

Publication Year2022

SubjectMind & Body, Epistemology, General, Metaphysics

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy

AuthorA. R. J. Fisher

FormatHardcover

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Table Of Content1. Introduction, Helen Beebee and A.R.J. Fisher2. Modal Angst or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Modal Realism, John Heil3. The Problem of Metaphysical Omniscience, Wolfgang Schwarz4. Plenitude and Recombination, Alastair Wilson5. Why Lewis Would Have Rejected Grounding, Fraser MacBride and Frederique Janssen-Lauret6. Carnap's Second Aufbau and David Lewis s Aufbau, David J. Chalmers7. Lewis: Metaphysics First, Frank Jackson8. Naturalness, Arbitrariness, and Serious Ontology, A.R.J. Fisher9. Two Kinds of Platonism and Categorial Semantics, John Bigelow and Martin Leckey10. David Lewis and His Place in the History of Formal Semantics, Angelika Kratzer11. The Genesis of Lewis's Counterfactual Analysis of Causation, Helen Beebee12. What Would Lewis Do?, Daniel Nolan13. Paradoxes of Time Travel to the Future, Sara Bernstein14. Lewis on Time Travel, Jonathan Bennett

SynopsisDavid K. Lewis (1941-2001) was unquestionably one of the most important analytic philosophers of the twentieth century, writing papers and books, largely but not exclusively in metaphysics, that set the intellectual agenda across a huge variety of topics in the last three decades. Some twenty years after his death, this collection of essays reflects the historical importance of Lewis's work by bringing together a range of scholarly reflections on his work. The essays consider a range of topics including the nature of metaphysics, the epistemology of necessary truths, possibility, naturalness, supervenience, time travel, causation, semantics, and ethics. Several of them draw on an exciting new body of material in the Lewisian corpus, his extensive correspondence, recently published in two volumes (OUP, 2020). The wide-ranging topics of these essays illustrate the impressive extent of Lewis's thought and his reach across most areas of analytic philosophy. The chapters collected in this volume adds to the increasing literature on the philosophy of David K. Lewis and will be an important book for those examining his role in the history of analytic philosophy., 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.

LC Classification NumberB945.L4554