David Lewis
David Lewis David Kellogg Lewis was born in Oberlin, Ohio, on 28 September 1941 and died in Princeton, New Jersey, on 14 October 2001. During an undergraduate year at Oxford he heard J. L. Austin’s last lecture series and was tutored by Iris Murdoch. He took his doctorate at Harvard (1967) under W. V. O. Quine; the dissertation became his first book, Convention (1969). He taught at UCLA from 1966 and, from 1970 until the end of his life, at Princeton University. He should not be confused with C. I. Lewis (1883–1964), another American philosopher. His thought is among the most influential systematic constructions of late twentieth-century analytic metaphysics, distinguished by bold ontological theses defended with rigorous argument and by a demonstration of the explanatory power of the notion of a possible world. ...