Table of Contents
Notes 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