Author: David K. Lewis
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: worlds, plurality
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-02-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0631224262
ISBN-13: 9780631224266

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. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true. After putting forward the type of modal realism he favors, Lewis answers numerous objections that have been raised against it. These include an insistence that everything must be actual; paradoxes akin to those that confront naive set theory; arguments that modal realism

Author: Jacques Roubaud
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: lewis, worlds, plurality
Number of Pages: 109
Published: 1995-03
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1564780694
ISBN-13: 9781564780690

poetry, tr Rosmarie Waldrop

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Publisher: Croom Helm
Keywords: honor, barnard, essays, politics, plurality, amp, unity
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 1986
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0709926200
ISBN-13: 9780709926207

Author: David Tracy
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: hope, religion, hermeneutics, ambiguity, plurality
Number of Pages: 155
Published: 1994-06-10
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0226811263
ISBN-13: 9780226811260

In Plurality and Ambiguity, David Tracy lays the philosophical groundwork for a practical application of hermeneutics, while constructing an innovative model of theological interpretation developed out of the notions of conversation and argument. He concludes with an appraisal of the religious significance of hope in an age of radically different voices and constantly shifting meanings.

Author: Ian Angus
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: plurality, wilderness, cultural, identity, national, border
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1997-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0773516530
ISBN-13: 9780773516533

The border is the governing metaphor of the book. Angus argues that English Canadian identity revolves around maintaining a border between Canada and the United States, and suggests that the border between countries can also be seen as a border between self and Other, between humanity and nature. Multiculturalism and the ecology movement’s rethinking of the relation between humanity and nature suggest that English Canadian social and political philosophy is oriented toward sustaining a border between self and Other, in order to preserve what is one’s own while maintaining and respe

Author: Paul Newman
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc
Keywords: african, languages, linguistics, publications, chadic, verbal, plurality, nominal
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 1990-12
List price: $66.10
ISBN-10: 906765499X
ISBN-13: 9789067654999

Author: Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: truth, unity, religions, plurality, religion
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1992-04-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0020641400
ISBN-13: 9780020641407

Only if, with regard to the diversity of religions, there are questions about truth and falsehood do we have a problem about the pluralism of religions and the unity of truth. That problem is not concerned with preserving religious liberty, freedom of worship, and the toleration, in a particular society or in the world, of a diversity of religious institutions, communities, practices, and beliefs. It is concerned only with the question of where, in that diversity, the truth lies if there is any truth in religion at all.