Convention: A Philosophical Study
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], ix-xii, [2], 1-213, [3] pp. Blue cloth with black lettering on the spine. In-text illustrations in black and white. Foreword by Willard Van Orman Quine. Slater 572. Lewis, one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth-century, made major contributions in numerous branches of the subject. In this book, Lewis explicates a general theory of convention based on ideas from game-theory and considers the ramifications of this theory in connection with issues in the philosophy of language, including a particularly interesting account of the notion of analyticity invoking the notion of possible worlds (humorously commented upon by Quine in his foreword). Lewis' first book. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #000015864
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