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6 de sept. de 2007 · David Lewis (1969) provides the first systematic theory of how social convention generates linguistic meaning. Subsequent philosophers to offer convention-based accounts include Jonathan Bennett (1976), Simon Blackburn (1984), Wayne Davis (2003), Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone (2015), Brian Loar (1976), and Stephen Schiffer (1972).
David Lewis responded boldly: this talk of possible worlds is the literal truth. Lewis propounded a thesis of modal realism: the world we inhabit – the entire cosmos of which we are a part – is but one of a vast plurality of worlds, or cosmoi, all causally and spatiotemporally isolated from one another. Whatever might have happened in our ...
David Lewis (1941-2001) by Chris Bloor. David Kellogg Lewis died on October 14th as a result of complications arising from diabetes. He was 60. Although he was primarily as a logician, his work encompassed a wide range of philosophical issues, including language, ethics, mathematics, and the philosophy of mind.
Abstract. The cause and occasion of the volume are explained, along with an introduction to David Lewis’s importance in analytic philosophy. The content of the chapters—which cover a range of topics and issues in Lewis’s work—is briefly summarized. The question of whether or in what sense Lewis was a ‘systematic’ philosopher is ...
STEPHANIE R. LEWIS. This chapter is not a cradle-to-grave intellectual biography of David Lewis. In particular, it does not try to be comprehensive about the origins of his views or of how he came to hold them. Its purpose is to exhibit elements of the origins of the David Lewis we knew, philosopher and human being, and whose works we know.
Remembering David Lewis. Sept. 28, 2021. On what would have been his 80th birthday, the Department of Philosophy fondly remembers our former colleague and good friend David K. Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001), the significant contributions he made across multiple branches of philosophy, and the lasting effect he had on the ...
David Kellogg Lewis (* 28. September 1941 in Oberlin, Ohio; † 14. Oktober 2001 in Princeton, New Jersey) war ein US-amerikanischer Philosoph, der in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts einflussreiche Beiträge zu mehreren Teilgebieten der praktischen und der theoretischen Philosophie leistete.
