Perspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis by Beebee, Helen

Perspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780192845443)

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Perspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis by Beebee, Helen

Perspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis

$90.00
Perspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis by Beebee, Helen

Perspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis

$90.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Helen Beebee
ISBN-10: 0192845446
ISBN-13: 9780192845443
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2022
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.50w x 1.00d
By Helen Beebee
By Helen Beebee
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Helen Beebee, University of Leeds, A. R. J. Fisher, University of Washington

Helen Beebee is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney. She was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, The Age of Metaphysical Revolution: David Lewis and His Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy, from 2016 to 2019. She has published books on Hume and free will, as well as an accessible introduction to philosophy with Michael Rush.

A.R.J. Fisher is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Washington. He received his PhD from Syracuse University in 2012. He specializes in metaphysics and the history of analytic philosophy. For the last five years, he has extensively studied the David Lewis Papers at Princeton University and worked on the AHRC-funded project The Age of Metaphysical Revolution: David Lewis and His Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy.

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