In the corridor I just saw a really nicely designed poster advertising the inaugural David Lewis lecture. I hadn’t even known there was such a thing as a David Lewis lecture, so this was pleasing to discover. The inaugural lecturer is Frank Jackson, which is a good choice, and he is talking on “A Priori Biconditionals and Metaphysics”. The talk is at 4pm, on October 27, in Robertson Hall, Bowl Two at Princeton.

There doesn’t seem to be a prominent ad for the lecture as such on the “Princeton philosophy”:http://philosophy.princeton.edu/ webpage. But poking around their “events section”:http://philosophy.princeton.edu/events.html I discovered that on the same day, Steffi Lewis is doing a talk at 12.30 on “Lewis and the Christians”.

Happily, I’ll be in New Jersey that weekend, so if all goes to plan I’ll be able to go to both talks. I’m very pleased that Princeton has created a Lewis lecture, and I’m looking forward to seeing Frank deliver it.

PS: If you Google “David Lewis Lecture”, you find at least two lecture series with that title: one in classics at Oxford, and one in architecture at Carnegie Mellon. Now a philosophy lecture series to join that group.