On the Plurality of Worlds

Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell (1986)
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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

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David K. Lewis
PhD: Harvard University; Last affiliation: Princeton University

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