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<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p><b>Part I Biography and New Work 1</b></p> <p>1 Intellectual Biography of David Lewis (1941–2001): Early Influences 3<br /> <i>Stephanie R. Lewis</i></p> <p>2 Counterparts of States of Affairs 15<br /> <i>David Lewis</i></p> <p>3 Reply to Dana Scott, “Is There Life on Possible Worlds?” 18<br /> <i>David Lewis</i></p> <p><b>Part II Methodology and Context 23</b></p> <p>4 Lewis’s Philosophical Method 25<br /> <i>Daniel Nolan</i></p> <p>5 On Metaphysical Analysis 40<br /> <i>David Braddon-Mitchell and Kristie Miller</i></p> <p>6 A Lewisian History of Philosophy 60<br /> <i>Robert Pasnau</i></p> <p>7 David Lewis’s Place in Analytic Philosophy 80<b><br /> </b><i>Scott Soames</i></p> <p><b>Part III Metaphysics and Science 99</b></p> <p>8 Humean Supervenience 101<br /> <i>Brian Weatherson</i></p> <p>9 No Work for a Theory of Universals 116<br /> <i>M. Eddon and C.J.G. Meacham</i></p> <p>10 Hume’s Dictum and Metaphysical Modality: Lewis’s Combinatorialism 138<br /> <i>Jessica Wilson</i></p> <p>11 Truthmaking: With and Without Counterpart Theory 159<br /> <i>Phillip Bricker</i></p> <p>12 How to Be Humean 188<br /> <i>Jenann Ismael</i></p> <p>13 Where (in Logical Space) Is God? 206<br /> <i>Stephanie R. Lewis</i></p> <p>14 De Re Modality, Essentialism, and Lewis’s Humeanism 220<br /> <i>Helen Beebee and Fraser MacBride</i></p> <p>15 David Lewis on Persistence 237<br /> <i>Katherine Hawley</i></p> <p>16 “Perfectly Understood, Unproblematic, and Certain”: Lewis on Mereology 250<br /> <i>Karen Bennett</i></p> <p>17 Humean Reductionism about Laws of Nature 262<br /> <i>Ned Hall</i></p> <p>18 Why Lewisians Should Love Deterministic Chance 278<br /> <i>Rachael Briggs</i></p> <p>19 Lewis on Causation 295<br /> <i>Christopher Hitchcock</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Language and Logic 313</b></p> <p>20 David Lewis on Convention 315<br /> <i>Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone</i></p> <p>21 Asking What a Meaning Does: David Lewis’s Contributions to Semantics 328<br /> <i>Barbara H. Partee</i></p> <p>22 Accommodation in a Language Game 345<br /> <i>Craige Roberts</i></p> <p>23 Lewis on Reference and Eligibility 367<br /> <i>J.R.G. Williams</i></p> <p>24 On the Nature of Certain Philosophical Entities: Set Theoretic Constructionalism in the Metaphysics of David Lewis 382<br /> <i>Gideon Rosen</i></p> <p>25 Primitive Self-Ascription: Lewis on the De Se 399<br /> <i>Richard Holton</i></p> <p>26 Counterfactuals and Humean Reduction 411<br /> <i>Robert Stalnaker</i></p> <p>27 On the Plurality of Lewis’s Triviality Results 425<br /> <i>Alan Hájek</i></p> <p>28 Decision Theory after Lewis 446<br /> <i>John Collins</i></p> <p>29 Lewis on Mereology and Set Theory 459<br /> <i>John P. Burgess</i></p> <p><b>Part V Epistemology and Mind 471</b></p> <p>30 Lewis on Knowledge Ascriptions 473<br /> <i>Jonathan Schaffer</i></p> <p>31 Humility and Coexistence in Kant and Lewis: Two Modal Themes, with Variations 491<br /> <i>Rae Langton</i></p> <p>32 Analytic Functionalism 504<br /> <i>Wolfgang Schwarz</i></p> <p>33 Lewis on Materialism and Experience 519<br /> <i>Daniel Stoljar</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Ethics and Politics 533</b></p> <p>34 Lewis on Value and Valuing 535<br /> <i>Peter Railton</i></p> <p>35 David Lewis’s Social and Political Philosophy 549<br /> <i>Simon Keller</i></p> <p>Bibliography of the Work of David Lewis 562</p> <p>Index 572</p>

<p><b>Barry Loewer</b> is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and director of the Rutgers Center for Philosophy and the Sciences. He works mainly on philosophy of science, focusing on issues in philosophy of physics and metaphysics. His publications include <i>Counterfactuals and the Second Law, David Lewis’s Humean Theory of Objective Chance</i>, and <i>Why is There Anything Except Physics?. </i> <p><b>Jonathan Schaffer</b> is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. His research centers on metaphysics, epistemology, and language, and his publications include <i>Monism: The Priority of the Whole</i>, <i>On What Grounds What</i>, <i>and Knowing the Answer. </i>

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