On the Plurality of Worlds
Hardcover edition | |
| Author | David Lewis |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Modal realism, possible worlds |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Publication date | 1986 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print, e-book |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 978-0631224969 |
| OCLC | 884892760 |
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 is not to be confused with cosmic pluralism.