Overview

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.

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Author:   Jackson ,  Priest
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.436kg
ISBN:  

9780199274567

ISBN 10:   0199274568
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   02 September 2004
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Table of Contents

Frank Jackson and Graham Priest: Introduction 1: David Lewis: How Many Lives Has Schrödinger's Cat? 2: Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi: Counting the Holes 3: M. J. Cresswell: Adequacy Conditions for Counterpart Theory 4: Marian David: Don't Forget About the Correspondence Theory of Truth 5: Andy Egan: Second-Order Predication and the Metaphysics of Properties 6: Adam Elga: Infinitesimal Chances and the Laws of Nature 7: Alan Hajek and Philip Pettit: Desire Beyond Belief 8: Ned Hall: Two Mistakes About Credence and Chance 9: Richard Hanley: As Good as it Gets: Lewis on Truth in Fiction 10: David Vander Laan: Counterpossibles and Similarities 11: Kris McDaniel: Modal Realism with Overlap 12: Jim Mackenzie: The Ballad of Ugly Dave 13: David Papineau: David Lewis and Schrödinger's Cat 14: Josh Parsons: Distributional Properties 15: L. A. Paul: The Context of Essence 16: Gideon Rosen and Nicholas J. J. Smith: Worldly Indeterminacy: A Rough Guide 17: Jonathan Schaffer: Quiddistic Knowledge 18: Robert Stalnaker: Lewis on Intentionality 19: Barry Taylor: Transworld Similarity and Transworld Belief Index

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

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