David Lewis
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American philosopher (1941–2001)
Key facts
- Born
- David Kellogg Lewis , September 28, 1941, Oberlin , Ohio, U.S.
- Died
- October 14, 2001 (aged 60), Princeton , New Jersey, U.S.
- Other name
- Bruce Le Catt
- Spouse
- Stephanie R. Lewis
- Education
- Swarthmore College ( BA ), St Anne's College, Oxford , Harvard University ( PhD )
- Doctoral advisor
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Other advisors
- Iris Murdoch , Donald Cary Williams
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Analytic , Nominalism , Perdurantism
- Institutions
- UCLA , Princeton University
- Doctoral students
- Robert Brandom , Alex Byrne , L. A. Paul , Peter Railton , J. David Velleman
- Notable students
- Ned Hall
- Main interests
- Logic · Philosophy of language · Metaphysics , Epistemology · Ethics
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Family name
- Lewis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Oberlin
- Place of death
- Princeton
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Educated at
- University of Oxford
- Employer
- Princeton University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Doctoral advisor
- Hilary Putnam
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Movement
- atheism
- Image
- David Lewis (1962) (cropped).webp
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- date of birth
- 1941-09-28
- date of death
- 2001-10-14
- name in native language
- David Kellogg Lewis
- Stack Exchange tag
- philosophy.stackexchange.com/tags/david-lewis
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
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David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) was an American philosopher. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then at Princeton University from 1970 until his death. He is closely associated with Australia, whose philosophical community he visited almost annually for more than 30 years.
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