When David was a boy, he had tea at pollio when he was, i don't know, eight, nine years old. Now he walked, and that was all his life. And so he walked with funny, sort of a toes out step. He had a one lazy eye that never worked very well. His field of science was chemistry. One of the most precious memories i have is watching him turn test tube colors from blues to reds or the other way round. I just felt like that was a special little world where we had a lot in common.
David Lewis was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, who few outside of academia know much about. By the time of his death in 2001, he was the greatest systematic thinker in metaphysics since the Enlightenment. In Part 1 of a four-part series, we follow his journey from sick little boy in Oberlin, Ohio to teenager learning about free will from Iris Murdoch. We accompany the story of his early life with his theory of time, time travel, and the self. Guest voices include R. Jay Wallace, Mark Schroeder, Steffi Lewis, Donald Lewis, Ellen Lewis, Alan Hajek, John Bigelow, and Meghan Sullivan.
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