David Lewis

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analytic philosopher human metaphysician philosopher

David Lewis was an American philosopher renowned for his influential work in metaphysics, especially modal realism and possible worlds semantics, as well as significant contributions to philosophy of language and mind.

Aliases (1)

David Kellogg Lewis ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	analytic philosopher → human → metaphysician → philosopher →
academicDiscipline	philosophy →
birthDate	1941-09-28 →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
deathDate	2001-10-14 →
doctoralAdvisor	W. V. O. Quine →
educatedAt	Harvard University → Oxford University → Swarthmore College →
employer	Princeton University → University of California, Los Angeles →
era	20th-century philosophy →
familyName	Lewis →
fieldOfWork	epistemology → metaphysics → philosophy of language → philosophy of logic → philosophy of mind →
givenName	David →
influenced	contemporary analytic metaphysics → contemporary philosophy of language →
influencedBy	David Hume → Gottlob Frege → Saul Kripke → W. V. O. Quine →
language	English →
name	David Kellogg Lewis →
notableIdea	Humean supervenience → best systems analysis of laws of nature → contextualism about knowledge ascriptions → conventionalism about language → counterpart theory → modal realism → possible worlds semantics →
notableWork	Convention: A Philosophical Study → Counterfactuals → On the Plurality of Worlds → Parts of Classes → Philosophical Papers, Volume I → Philosophical Papers, Volume II →
philosophicalSchool	analytic philosophy →
placeOfBirth	Oberlin, Ohio, United States →
placeOfDeath	Princeton, New Jersey, United States →
spouse	Stephanie Lewis →
theoryDeveloped	counterpart theory of trans-world identity → possible worlds analysis of counterfactuals →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Willard Van Orman Quine →	influenced
Stephen Yablo →	influencedBy
David Lewis ("David Kellogg Lewis") →	name
Avi Lewis →	relative