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Philosophical Manuscripts (Hardcover)
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Philosophical Manuscripts (Hardcover)
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David Lewis (1941-2001) was a celebrated and influential figure in
analytic philosophy. When Lewis died, he left behind a large body
of unpublished notes, manuscripts, and letters. This volume
contains two longer manuscripts which Lewis had originally intended
to turn into books, and thirty-one shorter items. The longer
manuscripts are 'The Paradoxes of Time Travel', his David Gavin
Young Lectures at the University of Adelaide, and 'Confirmation
Theory', which is based on a graduate course on probability and
logic that he gave at UCLA. Lewis's described his purposes in 'The
Paradoxes of Time Travel' as being, `(1) to solve a philosophical
problem hitherto largely ignored or casually mis-solved by
philosophers […]; (2) to introduce the layman to various topics
in metaphysics, since our problem turns out to connect with many
more familiar ones; and (3) to show of several of my favorite
doctrines and methods in metaphysics'. By contrast, 'Confirmation
Theory' is a technical work in which Lewis aimed to present in a
unified fashion what he considered to be the best from competing
theories of confirmation. Lewis described the work as
'Mathematically self-contained, with proofs for the major theorems;
but the mathematics is kept down to hairy high-school algebra'. The
thirty-one shorter items cover such topics as causation, freedom of
the will, probability, counterparts, reference, logic, value, and
divine evil. They are included here both for their intrinsic
philosophical interest and their historical value. This volume also
contains an intellectual biography of the young David Lewis by the
editors.
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