Philosophical Manuscripts

• Editors' Introduction


• An Intellectual Biography Of The Young David Lewis


• Part I: Longer Manuscripts
  


• The Paradoxes of Time Travel: The Gavin David Young Lectures at the University of Adelaide (1971)
  


• 1: Time Travel without Hyperkinesis


• 2: Mapping Exercise


• 3: Personal Identity and Personal Time


• 4: Reversed Causation


• 5: Changing the Past: Failure


• 6: Changing the Past: Success


• References
  


• Confirmation Theory (1969)


• 0: Intensional Semantics


• 1: Probability Measures


• 2: Rational Belief: Statistics


• 3: Rational Belief: Kinematics


• 4: Scientific Method


• 5: Principles of Indierence


• 6: Carnap's lm-system: One Family


• 7: Carnap's lm-system: Many Families


• 8: Hintikka's lm-pa-system


• Confirmation Theory Bibliography
  


• Part II: Short Posthumously Published Papers (1965-2001)


• 1: Particular and General Causal Claims (c. 1965-66)


• 2: On the Nature of Certain Nonidentities: A Reply to Montague (1968)


• 3: Reply to Sommers (1969)


• 4: Contagion without Rigidity (1971)


• 5: Counterfactual Probability (1971)


• 6: Reply to Davidson (1972)


• 7: Insatiable Quantifiers (1972)


• 8: Counterfactual and Objective Probability (1973)


• 9: Counterpart Theory Mk. II (1974)


• 10: To the Thursday Logic Seminar (1976)


• 11: Reply to Pollock (1979)


• 12: Supervenience of Chances (1979)


• 13: Reply to Adams (1979)


• 14: From Phenomenal to Epiphenomenal (1981)


• 15: The Monty Hall Problem (c. 1982)


• 16: Richter's Problem (1983)


• 17: Russian Roulette (1984)


• 18: Mass and Value (1985)

Frederique Janssen-Lauret is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Manchester, specialising in philosophical logic and history of analytic philosophy. She was previously a research fellow on the AHRC-funded project 'The Age of Metaphysical Revolution: David Lewis and His Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy'. She is co-translator of Quine's The Significance of the New Logic (Cambridge University Press 2018) and has published papers on philosophical logic, Lewis, Quine, and Stebbing in Synthese, The Monist, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, and in volumes published by Oxford, Cambridge, and Palgrave.

Fraser MacBride is currently Chair of Logic & Metaphysics at the University of Manchester. He was previously the Chair of Logic and Rhetoric at Glasgow University and held a Readership at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of On the Genealogy of Universal: The Metaphysical Origins of Analytic Philosophy (OUP) and was awarded a Leverhulme Prize for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics. He was Co-Investigator on the AHRC funded project 'The Age of Metaphysical Revolution: David Lewis and His Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy' and has published papers on Lewis's relationship to Armstrong, Quine, and Carnap.