I didn’t mean the comments thread below to turn into an outbreak of serious Lewis study, but #1 Bad Boy asked an interesting question.

bq. What papers or books do you think are essential for a beginning graduate student to read of Lewis’s. I know this is probably a long list, but try keep it to 5 papers and 2 books

I guessed papers were less than books, so 1 book and 6 papers would be OK.

bq. __On the Plurality of Worlds__ – 1986
“Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications” – 1972
“The Paradoxes of Time Travel” – 1976
“Counterfactual Dependence and Time’s Arrow” – 1979
“New Work for a Theory of Universals” – 1983
“Reduction of Mind” – 1994
“Causation as Influence” – 2000

This is obviously reflecting my interests a lot, so others may have different ideas. So this is a little challenge for the weekend, how would you answer Bad Boy’s question? One ground rule – no including the collections of papers as books. Otherwise Philosophical Papers volume 1 and Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology make it too easy.

By the way, Papers in M&E (or __The Bible for Young Metaphysicians__ as I like to think of it) is fully available online at Amazon.