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On the Plurality of Worlds (1986) is a book by the philosopher David Lewis that defends the thesis of modal realism. "The thesis states that the world we are part of is but one of a plurality of worlds," as he writes in the preface, "and that we who inhabit this world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds." It ...
- David Kellog Lewis
- 1986
5. März 2019 · On the plurality of worlds. by. Lewis, David K. Publication date. 1986. Topics. Modality (Theory of knowledge), Plurality of worlds, Realism. Publisher. Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell.
According to Lewis's theory, there are many worlds, each one a thing of the same kind as our world. I will call things of this kind \cosmoses," to emphasize Lewis's distinctive account of their nature. Our cosmos is familiar: it comprises an entire spacetime and all its contents.
Lewis propounded a thesis of modal realism: the world we inhabit – the entire cosmos of which we are a part – is but one of a vast plurality of worlds, or cosmoi, all causally and spatiotemporally isolated from one another.
- Phillip Bricker
- 2006
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (French: Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes) is a popular science book by French author Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, published in 1686.
This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds.
The Thesis of a Plurality of Worlds. According to Lewis‘s theory, there are many worlds, each one a thing of the same kind as our world. I will call things of this kind ―cosmoses,‖ to emphasize Lewis‘s distinctive account of their nature. Our cosmos is familiar: it comprises an entire spacetime and all its contents.
