{"title":"Elusive Knowledge","authors":"Davis Lewis","doi":"10.4324/9781003061038-59","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"David Lewis (1941-2001) was Class of 1943 University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His contributions spanned philosophical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. In On the Plurality of Worlds, he defended his challenging metaphysical position, \"modal realism.\" He was also the author of the books Convention, Counterfactuals, Parts of Classes, and several volumes of collected papers.","PeriodicalId":104597,"journal":{"name":"Arguing About Knowledge","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"387","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Arguing About Knowledge","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003061038-59","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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David Lewis (1941-2001) was Class of 1943 University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His contributions spanned philosophical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. In On the Plurality of Worlds, he defended his challenging metaphysical position, "modal realism." He was also the author of the books Convention, Counterfactuals, Parts of Classes, and several volumes of collected papers.