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David 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.
Contents
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
