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David Lewis. (Tribute).(Obituary)

Quadrant

| January 01, 2002 | Armstrong, David | COPYRIGHT 2002 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

BEFORE HIS sudden death on 14th October 2001, David Lewis was, by common consent of his peers, the most able philosopher of his age. He was also a great friend of Australian philosophy and of Australia. He was even a contributor to Quadrant, with an intriguing speculation about our greatest literary hoax, the Ern Malley affair.

He was born in Oberlin, Ohio, of academic parents, and early showed academic brilliance, attending mathematics and chemistry lectures at Oberlin College while still at high school. He went on to Swarthmore College, intending to take chemistry as his major, but courses he took in philosophy gradually diverted him from this. Very important ...

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