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David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) was an American philosopher. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then at Princeton University from 1970 until his death. He is closely associated with Australia, whose philosophical community he visited almost annually for more than 30 years.
Jul 23, 2009 · David Lewis (1941–2001) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. He made significant contributions to philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, decision theory, epistemology, meta-ethics and aesthetics.
David Lewis was an American philosopher and one of the last generalists, in the sense that he was one of the last philosophers who contributed to the great majority of sub-fields of the discipline. He made central contributions in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind.
David K. Lewis. Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University. Verified email at lists.berkeley.edu. Metaphysics epistemology logic language mind.
Jan 5, 2010 · David Lewis produced a body of philosophical writing that, in four books and scores of articles, spanned every major philosophical area, with perhaps the greatest concentration in metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mind.
I will divide the terrain into four parts: Lewis’s fundamental ontology; his theory of metaphysical modality; his “applied” metaphysics (covering such topics as laws of nature, counterfactuals, causation, identity through time, and the mind); and Lewisian methodology in meta-physics.
David Lewis (1941-2001) was unquestionably one of the most important analytic philosophers of the 20th 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 30 years or so of the 20th century, and still do so.
David Kellogg Lewis (born September 28, 1941, Oberlin, Ohio, U.S.—died October 14, 2001, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American philosopher who, at the time of his death, was considered by many to be the leading figure in Anglo-American philosophy (see analytic philosophy).
Seeing why will both showcase some of the power Lewis’s conception of fundamental ontology has in shaping and clarifying metaphysical debates, and highlight a centrally important question that he has (perhaps unintentionally) bequeathed to us.
David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001) was a member of the Philosophy Department at Princeton University 1970-2001. Born in Oberlin Ohio, Lewis was educated at Swarthmore College, where he studied chemistry as well as Philosophy, and then at Harvard, where in 1967 he completed his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Willard Van Orman Quine.
