Companion to David Lewis

Barry Loewer 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 Counterfactuals and the Second Law, David Lewis’s Humean Theory of Objective Chance, and Why is There Anything Except Physics?. Jonathan Schaffer is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. His research centers on metaphysics, epistemology, and language, and his publications include Monism: The Priority of the Whole, On What Grounds What, and Knowing the Answer.

• Notes on Contributors ixPart I Biography and New Work 11 Intellectual Biography of David Lewis (1941–2001): Early Influences 3Stephanie R. Lewis2 Counterparts of States of Affairs 15David Lewis3 Reply to Dana Scott, “Is There Life on Possible Worlds?” 18David LewisPart II Methodology and Context 234 Lewis’s Philosophical Method 25Daniel Nolan5 On Metaphysical Analysis 40David Braddon-Mitchell and Kristie Miller6 A Lewisian History of Philosophy 60Robert Pasnau7 David Lewis’s Place in Analytic Philosophy 80Scott SoamesPart III Metaphysics and Science 998 Humean Supervenience 101Brian Weatherson9 No Work for a Theory of Universals 116M. Eddon and C.J.G. Meacham10 Hume’s Dictum and Metaphysical Modality: Lewis’s Combinatorialism 138Jessica Wilson11 Truthmaking: With and Without Counterpart Theory 159Phillip Bricker12 How to Be Humean 188Jenann Ismael13 Where (in Logical Space) Is God? 206Stephanie R. Lewis14 De Re Modality, Essentialism, and Lewis’s Humeanism 220Helen Beebee and Fraser MacBride15 David Lewis on Persistence 237Katherine Hawley16 “Perfectly Understood, Unproblematic, and Certain”: Lewis on Mereology 250Karen Bennett17 Humean Reductionism about Laws of Nature 262Ned Hall18 Why Lewisians Should Love Deterministic Chance 278Rachael Briggs19 Lewis on Causation 295Christopher HitchcockPart IV Language and Logic 31320 David Lewis on Convention 315Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone21 Asking What a Meaning Does: David Lewis’s Contributions to Semantics 328Barbara H. Partee22 Accommodation in a Language Game 345Craige Roberts23 Lewis on Reference and Eligibility 367J.R.G. Williams24 On the Nature of Certain Philosophical Entities: Set Theoretic Constructionalism in the Metaphysics of David Lewis 382Gideon Rosen25 Primitive Self-Ascription: Lewis on the De Se 399Richard Holton26 Counterfactuals and Humean Reduction 411Robert Stalnaker27 On the Plurality of Lewis’s Triviality Results 425Alan Hájek28 Decision Theory after Lewis 446John Collins29 Lewis on Mereology and Set Theory 459John P. BurgessPart V Epistemology and Mind 47130 Lewis on Knowledge Ascriptions 473Jonathan Schaffer31 Humility and Coexistence in Kant and Lewis: Two Modal Themes, with Variations 491Rae Langton32 Analytic Functionalism 504Wolfgang Schwarz33 Lewis on Materialism and Experience 519Daniel StoljarPart VI Ethics and Politics 53334 Lewis on Value and Valuing 535Peter Railton35 David Lewis’s Social and Political Philosophy 549Simon KellerBibliography of the Work of David Lewis 562Index 572

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