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Book SynopsisIn A Companion to David Lewis, Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer bring together top philosophers to explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's seminal work in original ways.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix
Part I Biography and New Work 1
1 Intellectual Biography of David Lewis (1941–2001): Early Influences 3
Stephanie R. Lewis
2 Counterparts of States of Affairs 15
David Lewis
3 Reply to Dana Scott, “Is There Life on Possible Worlds?” 18
David Lewis
Part II Methodology and Context 23
4 Lewis’s Philosophical Method 25
Daniel Nolan
5 On Metaphysical Analysis 40
David Braddon-Mitchell and Kristie Miller
6 A Lewisian History of Philosophy 60
Robert Pasnau
7 David Lewis’s Place in Analytic Philosophy 80
Scott Soames
Part III Metaphysics and Science 99
8 Humean Supervenience 101
Brian Weatherson
9 No Work for a Theory of Universals 116
M. Eddon and C.J.G. Meacham
10 Hume’s Dictum and Metaphysical Modality: Lewis’s Combinatorialism 138
Jessica Wilson
11 Truthmaking: With and Without Counterpart Theory 159
Phillip Bricker
12 How to Be Humean 188
Jenann Ismael
13 Where (in Logical Space) Is God? 206
Stephanie R. Lewis
14 De Re Modality, Essentialism, and Lewis’s Humeanism 220
Helen Beebee and Fraser MacBride
15 David Lewis on Persistence 237
Katherine Hawley
16 “Perfectly Understood, Unproblematic, and Certain”: Lewis on Mereology 250
Karen Bennett
17 Humean Reductionism about Laws of Nature 262
Ned Hall
18 Why Lewisians Should Love Deterministic Chance 278
Rachael Briggs
19 Lewis on Causation 295
Christopher Hitchcock
Part IV Language and Logic 313
20 David Lewis on Convention 315
Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone
21 Asking What a Meaning Does: David Lewis’s Contributions to Semantics 328
Barbara H. Partee
22 Accommodation in a Language Game 345
Craige Roberts
23 Lewis on Reference and Eligibility 367
J.R.G. Williams
24 On the Nature of Certain Philosophical Entities: Set Theoretic Constructionalism in the Metaphysics of David Lewis 382
Gideon Rosen
25 Primitive Self-Ascription: Lewis on the De Se 399
Richard Holton
26 Counterfactuals and Humean Reduction 411
Robert Stalnaker
27 On the Plurality of Lewis’s Triviality Results 425
Alan Hájek
28 Decision Theory after Lewis 446
John Collins
29 Lewis on Mereology and Set Theory 459
John P. Burgess
Part V Epistemology and Mind 471
30 Lewis on Knowledge Ascriptions 473
Jonathan Schaffer
31 Humility and Coexistence in Kant and Lewis: Two Modal Themes, with Variations 491
Rae Langton
32 Analytic Functionalism 504
Wolfgang Schwarz
33 Lewis on Materialism and Experience 519
Daniel Stoljar
Part VI Ethics and Politics 533
34 Lewis on Value and Valuing 535
Peter Railton
35 David Lewis’s Social and Political Philosophy 549
Simon Keller
Bibliography of the Work of David Lewis 562
Index 572
