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== Works == === Books === *''[[iarchive:conventionphilos0000lewi|Convention: A Philosophical Study]]'', Harvard University Press 1969. *''[[iarchive:counterfactuals00lewi|Counterfactuals]]'', Harvard University Press 1973; revised printing Blackwell 1986. *''[[iarchive:onpluralityofwor0000lewi|On the Plurality of Worlds]]'', Blackwell 1986. *''[[iarchive:partsofclasses0000lewi|Parts of Classes]]'', Blackwell 1991. Lewis published five volumes containing 99 papersβalmost all the papers he published in his lifetime. They discuss his counterfactual theory of [[causality|causation]], the concept of [[semantic score]], a contextualist analysis of knowledge, and a dispositional [[value theory]], among many other topics. *<cite>''Philosophical Papers, Vol. I''</cite> (1983) includes his early work on [[counterpart theory]] and the [[philosophy of language]] and of [[philosophy of mind|mind]]. *<cite>''[[iarchive:philosophicalpap0002lewi|Philosophical Papers, Vol. II]]''</cite> (1986) includes his work on [[counterfactuals]], causation, and [[decision theory]], where he promotes his [[principal principle]] about rational belief.<ref>Originally in {{cite book |first=David |last=Lewis |year=1980 |chapter=A Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance |editor-first=R. |editor-last=Jeffrey |editor-link=Richard Jeffrey |title=Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability |volume=2 |pages=263β293 |location=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=0-520-03826-6 }}</ref> Its preface discusses [[Humean supervenience]], the name Lewis gave to his overarching philosophical project. *<cite>''[[iarchive:papersinphilosop0000lewi|Papers in Philosophical Logic]]''</cite> (1998). *<cite>''Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology''</cite> (1999) contains "Elusive Knowledge" and "Naming the Colours", honored by being reprinted in the ''Philosopher's Annual'' for the year they were first published. *<cite>''[[iarchive:papersinethicsso0000lewi|Papers in Ethics and Social Philosoph]]y''</cite> (2000). Lewis's monograph <cite>''Parts of Classes''</cite> (1991), on the [[foundations of mathematics]], sketched a reduction of [[set theory]] and [[Peano arithmetic]] to [[mereology]] and [[plural quantification]]. Very soon after its publication, Lewis became dissatisfied with some aspects of its argument; it is currently out of print (his paper "Mathematics is megethology", in ''Papers in Philosophical Logic'', is partly a summary and partly a revision of "Parts of Classes") '''''[[Nachlass]]''''' * {{cite book | last=Lewis | first=David | editor-first1=Frederique | editor-first2=Fraser | editor-last1=Janssen-Lauret | editor-last2=MacBride | title=Philosophical Manuscripts | publisher=Oxford University Press | publication-place=Oxford | date=2023-09-28 | isbn=978-0-19-284739-3 | doi=10.1093/oso/9780192847393.001.0001}} === Selected papers === * "Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic", ''Journal of Philosophy'' 65 (1968): pp. 113β126. * "General semantics", ''Synthese'', 22(1) (1970): pp. 18β67. * "Causation", ''Journal of Philosophy'' 70 (1973): pp. 556β67. Reprinted with postscripts in ''Philosophical Papers: Volume II'' (1986). * "Semantic Analyses for Dyadic Deontic Logic" in ''Logical Theory and Semantic Analysis: Essays Dedicated to Stig Kanger on His Fiftieth Birthday'', Reidel 1974. * "The Paradoxes of Time Travel", [[American Philosophical Quarterly]], April (1976): pp. 145β152. * "Truth in Fiction", ''American Philosophical Quarterly'' 15 (1978): pp. 37β46. * "How to Define Theoretical Terms", ''Journal of Philosophy'' 67 (1979): pp. 427β46. * "Scorekeeping in a Language Game", ''Journal of Philosophical Logic'' 8 (1979): pp. 339β59. * "[[Mad pain and Martian pain]]", ''Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology'' Vol. I. N. Block, ed. [[Harvard University Press]] (1980): pp. 216β222. * "A Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance", in R. Jeffrey, ed., ''Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability: Volume II''. Reprinted with postscripts in ''Philosophical Papers: Volume II'' (1986). * "Are We Free to Break the Laws?" ''[[Theoria (philosophy journal)|Theoria]]'' 47 (1981): pp. 113β21. * "New Work for a Theory of Universals", ''Australasian Journal of Philosophy'' 61 (1983): pp. 343β77. * "What Experience Teaches", in ''Mind and Cognition'' by [[William G. Lycan]], (1990 Ed.) pp. 499β519. Article omitted from subsequent editions. * "Elusive Knowledge", ''Australasian Journal of Philosophy'', 74/4 (1996): pp. 549β567.
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