Lewis's Philosophical Method

In Barry Loewer & Jonathan Schaffer, A companion to David Lewis. Chichester, West Sussex ;: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 25-39 (2015)
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Lewis is famous as a contemporary philosophical system-builder. The most obvious way his philosophy exhibited a system was in its content: Lewis’s metaphysics, for example, provided answers to many metaphysical puzzles in an integrated way, and there are illuminating connections to be drawn between his general metaphysical views and, for example, his various views about the mind and its place in nature

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original Nolan, Daniel (2015) "Lewis's Philosophical Method". In Loewer, Barry, Schaffer, Jonathan, A companion to David Lewis, pp. 23–39: Wiley-Blackwell (2015)

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