Letter of the month, November 2017
This 1971 letter to Mondadori contains an early version of Lewis’s reply to the famous problem now known as the ‘Humphrey objection’. In the first paragraph, Lewis agrees to publish ‘Languages and Language’ in Italian. It duly came out in 1973 as...Letter of the month, October 2017
Lewis here comments on two key issues: reference and methodology. In this letter, Lewis’s assesses the debate between him and Putnam about reference. Putnam had taken a pessimistic line on the question how words connect to their worldly referents. In short,...Letter of the month, September 2017
In this letter David Lewis argues against Reinhardt Grossmann’s claim that logic is about states of affairs (or facts), and not about sentences or propositions. It is an interesting example of Lewis’s opposition to factualist ontologies and his steadfast...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...
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