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David Lewis (1941-2001) was a celebrated and influential figure in analytic philosophy. When Lewis died, he left behind a large body of unpublished notes, manuscripts, and letters. This volume contains two longer manuscripts which Lewis had originally intended to turn into books, and thirty-one shorter items. The longer manuscripts are 'The Paradoxes of Time Travel', his David Gavin Young Lectures at the University of Adelaide, and 'Confirmation Theory', which is based on a graduate course on probability and logic that he gave at UCLA. Lewis's described his purposes in 'The Paradoxes of Time Travel' as being, `(1) to solve a philosophical problem hitherto largely ignored or casually mis-solved by philosophers [...]; (2) to introduce the layman to various topics in metaphysics, since our problem turns out to connect with many more familiar ones; and (3) to show of several of my favorite doctrines and methods in metaphysics'. By contrast, 'Confirmation Theory' is a technical work in which Lewis aimed to present in a unified fashion what he considered to be the best from competing theories of confirmation. Lewis described the work as 'Mathematically self-contained, with proofs for the major theorems; but the mathematics is kept down to hairy high-school algebra'. The thirty-one shorter items cover such topics as causation, freedom of the will, probability, counterparts, reference, logic, value, and divine evil. They are included here both for their intrinsic philosophical interest and their historical value. This volume also contains an intellectual biography of the young David Lewis by the editors.
Contents
Frederique Janssen-Lauret and Fraser MacBride: Editors' Introduction
Frederique Janssen-Lauret and Fraser MacBride
: An Intellectual Biography Of The Young David Lewis
Part I: Longer Manuscripts
The Paradoxes of Time Travel: The Gavin David Young Lectures at the University of Adelaide (1971)
1: Time Travel without Hyperkinesis
2: Mapping Exercise
3: Personal Identity and Personal Time
4: Reversed Causation
5: Changing the Past: Failure
6: Changing the Past: Success
References
Confirmation Theory (1969)
0: Intensional Semantics
1: Probability Measures
2: Rational Belief: Statistics
3: Rational Belief: Kinematics
4: Scientific Method
5: Principles of Indierence
6: Carnap's lm-system: One Family
7: Carnap's lm-system: Many Families
8: Hintikka's lm-pa-system
Confirmation Theory Bibliography
Part II: Short Posthumously Published Papers (1965-2001)
1: Particular and General Causal Claims (c. 1965-66)
2: On the Nature of Certain Nonidentities: A Reply to Montague (1968)
3: Reply to Sommers (1969)
4: Contagion without Rigidity (1971)
5: Counterfactual Probability (1971)
6: Reply to Davidson (1972)
7: Insatiable Quantifiers (1972)
8: Counterfactual and Objective Probability (1973)
9: Counterpart Theory Mk. II (1974)
10: To the Thursday Logic Seminar (1976)
11: Reply to Pollock (1979)
12: Supervenience of Chances (1979)
13: Reply to Adams (1979)
14: From Phenomenal to Epiphenomenal (1981)
15: The Monty Hall Problem (c. 1982)
16: Richter's Problem (1983)
17: Russian Roulette (1984)
18: Mass and Value (1985)
19: De Se Detectivism (1986)
20: A Fifth Solution to the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics (c. 1987)
21: Acceptance Speech for the Behrman Award (1991)
22: Reply to Cresswell (1991)
23: Exclusion (1991)
24: Modal Demifictionalism (1994)
25: Merlin and Morgana (1999)
26: Reply to Martin's reply (1999)
27: Nihil Obstat: An Analysis of Ability (2001)
28: Divine Evil (2001)
29: Double Explanation by Double Having (2001)
30: Jack Is Unprovable (2001)
31: You Can't Win (2001)
