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Lewisian Themes
The Philosophy of David K. Lewis

Edited by Frank Jackson and Graham Priest

Price: £24.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927456-7
Publication date: 2 September 2004
296 pages, 1 halftone, 15 line illus., 234x156 mm

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Reviews

'a marvelous collection that reflects Lewis's work in both its quality and its breadth' - Brian Weatherson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Description

A tribute to the philosopher's philosopher
Lewis was one of the most popular and widely admired people in the discipline
Superb essays by leading philosophers from around the world, many of them Lewis's colleagues, students, or friends
Stimulating developments of his ideas on central topics in philosophy
Contains Lewis's last public lecture, delivered in June 2001

David Lewis's untimely death on 14 October 2001 deprived the philosophical community of one of the outstanding philosophers of the 20th century. As many obituaries remarked, Lewis has an undeniable place in the history of analytical philosophy. His work defines much of the current agenda in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and the philosophy of mind and language.
This volume, an expanded edition of a special issue of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy , covers many of the topics for which Lewis was well known, including possible worlds, counterpart theory, vagueness, knowledge, probability, essence, fiction, laws, conditionals, desire and belief, and truth. Many of the papers are by very established philosophers; others are by younger scholars including many he taught. The volume also includes Lewis's Jack Smart Lecture at the Australian National University, 'How Many Lives has Schrödinger's Cat?', published here for the first time.
Lewisian Themes will be an invaluable resource for anyone studying Lewis's work and a major contribution to the many topics that he mastered.

Readership: Scholars and students across many fields of philosophy

Contents

Introduction , Frank Jackson and Graham Priest

1. How Many Lives Has Schrodinger's Cat? , David Lewis

2. Counting the Holes , Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi

3. Adequacy Conditions for Counterpart Theory , M. J. Cresswell

4. Don't Forget About the Correspondence Theory of Truth , Marian David

5. Second-Order Predication and the Metaphysics of Properties , Andy Egan

6. Infinitesimal Chances and the Laws of Nature , Adam Elga

7. Desire Beyond Belief , Alan Hajek and Philip Pettit

8. Two Mistakes About Credence and Chance , Ned Hall

9. As Good as it Gets: Lewis on Truth in Fiction , Richard Hanley

10. Counterpossibles and Similarities , David Vander Laan

11. Modal Realism with Overlap , Kris McDaniel

12. The Ballad of Ugly Dave , Jim Mackenzie

13. David Lewis and Schrodinger's Cat , David Papineau

14. Distributional Properties , Josh Parsons

15. The Context of Essence , L. A. Paul

16. Worldly Indeterminacy: A Rough Guide , Gideon Rosen and Nicholas J. J. Smith

17. Quiddistic Knowledge , Jonathan Schaffer

18. Lewis on Intentionality , Robert Stalnaker

19. Transworld Similarity and Transworld Belief , Barry Taylor

Index

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Frank Jackson, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University and
Graham Priest, Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne

Links to web resources and related information

More in the same subject area:
Metaphysics & ontology
Logic
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of language

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Lewisian ThemesThe Philosophy of David K. Lewis

Lewisian Themes
The Philosophy of David K. Lewis