Add to ORKGWe argue that Lewis would have rejected recent appeals to the notions of ‘metaphysical dependency’, ‘grounding’ and ‘ontological priority’, because he would have held that they’re not needed and they’re not intelligible. We argue our case by drawing upon Lewis’s views on supervenience, the metaphysics of singletons and the dubiousness of Kripke’s essentialis
In recent years, metaphysics has undergone what some describe as a revolution: it has become standar...
The death of David Lewis at the age of 60 has deprived philosophy of one of its most original and br...
Approaches to quantum gravity often involve the disappearance of space and time at the fundamental l...
We argue that Lewis would have rejected recent appeals to the notions of ‘metaphysical dependency’, ...
While C. I. Lewis was traditionally interpreted as an epistemological foundationalist throughout his...
Few contributions in the field of metaphysics can be compared, for their depth and impact, to the w...
In 1901 Russell had envisaged the new analytic philosophy as uniquely systematic, borrowing the meth...
In "Ramseyan Humility," David Lewis argues that we cannot know what the fundamental properties in ou...
Thinking about metaphysical problems in terms of grounding has its uses, but those uses are limited....
In this paper we provide a psychological explanation for ‘grounding observations’—observations that ...
Primitive, unanalysable grounding relations are considered by many to be indispensable constituents ...
In recent years, metaphysics has undergone what some describe as a revolution: it has become standar...
The death of David Lewis at the age of 60 has deprived philosophy of one of its most original and br...
Approaches to quantum gravity often involve the disappearance of space and time at the fundamental l...
We argue that Lewis would have rejected recent appeals to the notions of ‘metaphysical dependency’, ...
While C. I. Lewis was traditionally interpreted as an epistemological foundationalist throughout his...
Few contributions in the field of metaphysics can be compared, for their depth and impact, to the w...
In 1901 Russell had envisaged the new analytic philosophy as uniquely systematic, borrowing the meth...
In "Ramseyan Humility," David Lewis argues that we cannot know what the fundamental properties in ou...
Thinking about metaphysical problems in terms of grounding has its uses, but those uses are limited....
In this paper we provide a psychological explanation for ‘grounding observations’—observations that ...
Primitive, unanalysable grounding relations are considered by many to be indispensable constituents ...
In recent years, metaphysics has undergone what some describe as a revolution: it has become standar...
The death of David Lewis at the age of 60 has deprived philosophy of one of its most original and br...
Approaches to quantum gravity often involve the disappearance of space and time at the fundamental l...