David Lewis
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Kellogg Lewis was an American philosopher who is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then at Princeton University from 1970 until his death. He is closely associated with Australia, whose philosophical community he visited almost annually for more than 30 years.
David Lewis 's Published Works
Published Works
- New work for a theory of universals (1983) (1967)
- A Subjectivist’s Guide to Objective Chance (1980) (1030)
- Psychophysical and theoretical identifications (1972) (904)
- Probabilities of Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities (1976) (900)
- Causation as Influence (2000) (777)
- Philosophical Papers: Volume II (1987) (735)
- Putnam's paradox (1984) (578)
- Counterfactuals and comparative possibility (1973) (330)
- Symposium: Chance and CredenceHumean Supervenience Debugged (1994) (319)
- Causal decision theory (1981) (265)
- Are we free to break the laws (2008) (230)
- Truthmaking and Difference-Making' (2001) (224)
- Against structural universals (1986) (194)
- Veridical hallucination and prosthetic vision (1980) (189)
- Testing Pendleton's Premise: Do Political Appointees Make Worse Bureaucrats? (2007) (177)
- Sleeping Beauty: reply to Elga (2001) (175)
- Toward a Broader Understanding of Presidential Power: A Reevaluation of the Two Presidencies Thesis (2008) (174)
- What experience teaches (1999) (174)
- Does Performance Budgeting Work? An Examination of the Office of Management and Budget’s PART Scores (2006) (172)
- A Problem About Permission (1979) (168)
- Papers in metaphysics and epistemology: Reduction of mind (1999) (167)
- Desire as Belief (1988) (149)
- Semantic Analyses for Dyadic Deontic Logic (1974) (141)
- Should a Materialist Believe in Qualia (1995) (134)
- Political Appointments, Civil Service Systems, and Bureaucratic Competence: Organizational Balancing and Executive Branch Revenue Forecasts in the American States (2006) (126)
- STATEMENTS PARTLY ABOUT OBSERVATION (1988) (120)
- Assessing Performance Budgeting at OMB: The Influence of Politics, Performance, and Program Size (2005) (113)
- Vague identity: Evans misunderstood (1988) (113)
- Agencies by Presidential Design (2002) (101)
- Papers in metaphysics and epistemology: New work for a theory of universals (1999) (97)
- Mathematics in Megethology (1993) (83)
- What puzzling Pierre does not believe (1981) (79)
- Desire as Belief II (1996) (78)
- Forget about the ‘correspondence theory of truth’ (2001) (77)
- Noneism or Allism (1990) (72)
- Meaning without use: Reply to Hawthorne (1992) (69)
- Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: The punishment that leaves something to chance (1999) (65)
- Papers in Philosophical Logic: Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities II (1986) (64)
- The Adverse Consequences of the Politics of Agency Design for Presidential Management in the United States: The Relative Durability of Insulated Agencies (2004) (55)
- Papers in Philosophical Logic: Analog and digital (1971) (55)
- Lucas Against Mechanism II (1979) (53)
- Completeness and decidability of three logics of counterfactual conditionals1 (2008) (53)
- Papers in Philosophical Logic: Mathematics is megethology (1997) (49)
- Intensional logics without interative axioms (1974) (48)
- Rearrangement of particles: Reply to Lowe (1988) (47)
- Staffing Alone: Unilateral Action and the Politicization of the Executive Office of the President, 1988‐2004 (2005) (42)
- EVIL FOR FREEDOM'S SAKE? (1993) (39)
- Papers in metaphysics and epistemology: Armstrong on combinatorial possibility (1999) (39)
- Marshall and Parsons on 'Intrinsic' (2001) (36)
- Papers in metaphysics and epistemology: Why conditionalize? (1999) (31)
- Papers in ethics and social philosophy (1998) (31)
- Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Why ain'cha rich? (1981) (31)
- Papers in metaphysics and epistemology: A world of truthmakers? (1999) (28)
- Possible-world semantics for counterfactual logics: A rejoinder (1977) (28)
- Papers in metaphysics and epistemology: Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology (1999) (28)
- Zimmerman and the spinning sphere (1999) (24)
- Postscript to ”Things qua Truthmakers': Negative Existentials (2003) (24)
- Do we believe in penal substitution (1997) (23)
- Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Evil for freedom's sake? (1999) (19)
- The Plurality of Worlds@@@On The Plurality of Worlds. (1988) (19)
- Papers in metaphysics and epistemology: Elusive knowledge (1999) (17)
- Mill and milquetoast (1989) (12)
- Reply to McMichael (1978) (12)
- Management and Leadership Performance in the Defense Department (2008) (11)
- Tharp’s third theorem (2002) (10)
- Utilitarianism and truthfulness (1972) (10)
- Vital Realism and Sociology: A Metatheoretical Grounding in Mead, Ortega, and Schutz (1993) (9)
- Ayer's first empiricist criterion of meaning: Why does it fail? (1988) (8)
- Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Academic appointments: Why ignore the advantage of being right? (1999) (6)
- Papers in metaphysics and epistemology: Putnam's paradox (1999) (6)
- Papers in metaphysics and epistemology: Psychophysical and theoretical identifications (1999) (6)
- Papers in Philosophical Logic: Index, context, and content (1997) (5)
- Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Devil's bargains and the real world (1999) (5)
- Erratum: Probabilities of Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities (1976) (4)
- Defining ‘intrinsic’ (with Rae Langton) (1999) (4)
- Counterpart Theory, Quantified Modal Logic, and Extra Argument Places (1993) (4)
- The trap's dilemma (1988) (4)
- Maudlin and modal mystery (1996) (4)
- Papers in Philosophical Logic: Introduction (1997) (3)
- Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Semantic analyses for dyadic deontic logic (1999) (3)
- Bouncing of vector solitons (2000) (3)
- Papers in metaphysics and epistemology: Finkish dispositions (1999) (2)
- Papers in metaphysics and epistemology: Naming the colours (1999) (2)
- Papers in metaphysics and epistemology: Noneism or allism? (1999) (2)
- Marshall and Parsons on (2001) (1)
- Papers in metaphysics and epistemology: Should a materialist believe in qualia? (1999) (1)
- Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: A problem about permission (1999) (1)
- Papers in Philosophical Logic: Relevant implication (1997) (1)
- Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Illusory innocence? (1999) (1)
- Errata: Logic for Equivocators (1983) (0)
- 13 - How should verse 17 be understood in light of different translations? (2009) (0)
- 10 - What is the nature of Paul's call? (2009) (0)
- Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Introduction (1999) (0)
- Papers in Philosophical Logic: Ayer's first empiricist criterion of meaning: why does it fail? (1997) (0)
- Review Essay: On the Plurality of Worlds@@@On the Plurality of Worlds. (1988) (0)
- Papers in Philosophical Logic: Ordering semantics and premise semantics for counterfactuals (1997) (0)
- Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Mill and Milquetoast (1999) (0)
- Book Reviews (2002) (0)
- 10-1-1995 Should a Materialist Believe in Qualia ? (0)
- Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Do we believe in penal substitution? (1999) (0)
- Papers in Philosophical Logic: ‘Whether’ report (1997) (0)
- Papers in Philosophical Logic: Dedication (1997) (0)
- Papers in Philosophical Logic: Adverbs of quantification (1997) (0)
- Papers in Philosophical Logic: Intensional logics without iterative axioms (1997) (0)
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