David Lewis ( Late Class of 1943 University Professor of Philosophy

Gebundenes Buch

Philosophical Manuscripts

Beschreibung

This is a volume of unpublished writings by the late David Lewis. It contains two long manuscripts and thirty-one shorter essays covering topics such as causation, freedom of the will, probability, counterparts, reference, logic, value, and divine evil. It also contains an intellectual biography of the young David Lewis by the editors.

Autor

Frederique Janssen-Lauret is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Manchester, specialising in philosophical logic and history of analytic philosophy. She was previously a research fellow on the AHRC-funded project 'The Age of Metaphysical Revolution: David Lewis and His Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy'. She is co-translator of Quine's The Significance of the New Logic (Cambridge University Press 2018) and has published papers on philosophical logic, Lewis, Quine, and Stebbing in Synthese, The Monist, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, and in volumes published by Oxford, Cambridge, and Palgrave. Fraser MacBride is currently Chair of Logic & Metaphysics at the University of Manchester. He was previously the Chair of Logic and Rhetoric at Glasgow University and held a Readership at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of On the Genealogy of Universal: The Metaphysical Origins of Analytic Philosophy (OUP) and was awarded a Leverhulme Prize for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics. He was Co-Investigator on the AHRC funded project 'The Age of Metaphysical Revolution: David Lewis and His Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy' and has published papers on Lewis's relationship to Armstrong, Quine, and Carnap.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780192847393
• ISBN-10: 0192847392
• Artikelnr.: 62846484