Philosophical Papers (Volume 1)

302 Pages·1983·21.659 MB·English

by  David Lewis

PHILOSOPHICAL
PAPERS
Volume I
DAVID LEWIS

Philosophical Papers
I

Philosophical Papers
Volume I
DAVID LEWIS
New York Oxford
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1983
Copyright (C) 1983 by David Lewis
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Lewis, David, 1941-
Philosoρhical papers.
Includes index.
1. Philosophy—Addresses, essays, lectures.
I. Title.
B29.L49 1982 110 82-22551
ISBN 0-19-503203-9 (v. 1)
ISBN 0-19-503204-7 (ρbk. : v. 1)
Printing (last digit): 9 8 7 6 5 4
Printed in the United States of America
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
PART 1: ONTOLOGY 1
1. Holes (with Stephanie Lewis) 3
2. Anselm and Actuality 10
Postscripts to “Anselm and Actuality” 21
3. Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic 26
Postscripts to “Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal
Logic” 39
4. Counterparts of Persons and Their Bodies 47
5. Survival and Identity 5 5
Postscripts to “Survival and Identity” 73
6. How To Define Theoretical Terms 78
PART 2: PHILOSOPHY OF MIND 97
7. An Argument for the Identity Theory 99
vi Contents
8, Radical Interpretation 108
Postscripts to “Radical Interpretation” 119
9. Mad Pain and Martian Pain 122
Postscript to “Mad Pain and Martian Pain” 130
10. Attitudes De Dicto and De Se 133
Postscripts to “Attitudes De Dicto and De Se” 156
PART 3: PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE 161
11. Languages and Language 163
12. General Semantics 189
Postscripts to “General Semantics” 230
13. Scorekeeping in a Language Game 233
14. ’Tensions 250
15. Truth in Fiction 261
Postscripts to “Truth in Fiction” 276
Index 281
Acknowledgments
I thank the editors and publishers who have kindly granted permission to reprint
the essays that appear in this volume. The places of first publication are as follows.
“Holes,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 48 (1970):206-12.
“Anselm and Actuality,” Nous 4 (1970): 175-88.
“Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic,” Journal of Philosophy 65
(1968): 113-26.
“Counterparts of Persons and Their Bodies,” Journal of Philsophy 68 (1971):
203-11.
“Survival and Identity,” in Amelie O. Rorty, ed., The Identities of Persons (Uni­
versity of California Press, 1976) 17-40.
“How to Define Theoretical Terms,” Journal of Philosophy 67 (1970): 427-46.
“An Argument for the Identity Theory,” Journal of Philosophy 65 (1966): 17-
25; with additional material from David M. Rosenthal, ed., Materialism and the
Mind-Body Problem (Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1971) 162 and 164-65.
“Radical Interpretation,” Synthese 23 (1974): 331-44. Copyright (C) 1974 by
D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland.
“Mad Pain and Martian Pain,” in Ned Block, ed., Readings in the Philosophy
of Psychology, Volume I (Harvard University Press, 1980) 216-22.
“Attitudes De Dicto and De Se," The Philosophical Review 88 (1979): 513-43.
“Languages and Language,” in Keith Gunderson, ed., Minnesota Studies in the
Philosophy of Science, Volume VII (University of Minnesota Press, 1975) 3-35.
vili Acknowledgments
“General Semantics,” Synthese 22 (1970): 18-67. Copyright © 1970 by D.
Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland.
“Scorekeeping in a Language Game,” Journal of Philosophical Logic 8 (1979):
339-59. Copyright © 1979 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht,
Holland.
“’Tensions,” reprinted by permission of New York University Press from
Semantics and Philosophy edited by Milton K. Munitz and Peter K. Unger. Copy­
right © 1974 by New York University.
“Truth in Fiction,” American Philosophical Quarterly 15 (1978): 37-46.