Peter anstey is professor of philosophy at the university of sydney and literary executor to the estate of david armstrong. Armstrong, most people think is the greatest philosopher that a strider as ever produced. When did he and David lewis meet? When did the relationship begin? Not in 68 at's the first letter for sactually, from stefie lewis toDavid armstrong as a postcard,. And ready continued until lewis was dead. Their typewritten correspondence was eno as 600 ninhty pages, e files. A lot of the ballast of the friendship really was built around, injondoing philosophy together. Some people like
In 1968, David Lewis decides that one truth can unify every theory he's had about the nature of the universe. It is the truth that every possible world is equally real. Lewis not only argues for this view, but devises a distinctive way of arguing for it, a method of doing philosophy that is as influential as his views. Meanwhile, a soon-to-be colleague and rival, Saul Kripke, reads Lewis' paper and fires off eight objections, and on the other side of the world, an entire continent becomes enamored with the life and works of David Kellogg Lewis, an admiration that survives to this day. Guest voices include Frank Jackson, Alan Hajek, John Bigelow, Helen Beebe, Anthony Fischer, Peter Anstey, and David Lewis.
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