By Barry Loewer,Jonathan Schaffer

ISBN-10: 1118388186

ISBN-13: 9781118388181

In A spouse to David Lewis, Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer collect most sensible philosophers to provide an explanation for, talk about, and seriously expand Lewis's seminal paintings in unique methods. scholars and students will detect the underlying subject matters and intricate interconnections woven during the different diversity of his paintings in metaphysics, philosophy of language, common sense, epistemology, philosophy of technological know-how, philosophy of brain, ethics, and aesthetics.

  • The first and basically accomplished examine of the paintings of David Lewis, essentially the most systematic and influential philosophers of the latter half the twentieth century
  • Contributions make clear the underlying topics and complicated interconnections woven via Lewis's paintings throughout his huge, immense variety of impression, together with metaphysics, language, common sense, epistemology, technology, brain, ethics, and aesthetics
  • Outstanding Lewis students and major philosophers operating within the fields Lewis inspired clarify, talk about, and seriously expand Lewis's paintings in unique ways
  • An crucial source for college kids and researchers throughout analytic philosophy that covers the most important topics of Lewis's work

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