Letter of the Month, April 2019
This month’s letter — from Lewis to Tony Coady — is a bit of light relief from abstract philosophising. Lewis is worrying about testimony, and in particular worrying about whether or to what extent someone’s known past deception affects, or should affect, whether we...Letter of the month, August 2017
View Fullscreen This month’s letter is from September 1989, from Lewis to Richard Cartwright. In the Introduction to his Philosophical Essays (MIT Press, 1987), Cartwright takes issue with Lewis’s claim (in his own Philosophical Papers, vol. I, OUP 1983,...Letter of the Month, July 2017
This month’s letter is from 1984 and sees Lewis asking the cartoonist Roz Chast whether she will allow him to use her ‘Parallel Universes’ cartoon as the frontispiece for On the Plurality of Worlds. Chast said ‘no’ since she was about to...Letter of the month, April 2017
April’s letter of the month, to Theodore Ziolkowski in May 1983, sees Lewis apparently comparing philosophy unfavourably with science. His starting point is an article in the Syracuse Scholar, ‘Pseudoscience’, by C.L. Hardin. (You can read the article here:...
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