Meanings of pluralism in different disciplines – Meaning in jurisprudence, esp. European Court of Human Rights – Feature of society and idea of society – Individual freedom v. group existence – Politics, religion, education – Pluralism as expression of rights and as guarantee of rights – Rejection of legal pluralism – Contradiction of elitist theory – State protection of pluralism and its limits

Causal pluralism is increasingly gaining interest as a promising alternative for monistic approaches toward causation. However, although the debate is scarcely out of the egg, the term “causal pluralism” already covers diverse meanings. This creates confusion, and to remedy that confusion, it is necessary to discern different kinds of pluralistic approaches to causation and different possible p...

in this article, the author studies the history of pluralism in the west and islamic world. then he has a look on the scopes and applications of pluralism and gives a new classification for it: 1- behavioral pluralism 2- cognitive pluralism he extends his philosophical thoughts and offers a novel point of view on this topic.

The recent popularity of legal pluralism has now reached the area of European private law. In this paper I scrutinize the concepts of legal pluralism used by three of its most prominent proponents: Pierre Legrand, Jan Smits, and Thomas Wilhelmsson. I do not offer fully-fledged criticism of their theories (each of which are among the most fascinating and helpful in the European private law debat...

asking about the place of religion in a democratic society refers straightforwardly to the kind of pluralism we adopt. given that intra-societal tensions mark out a democratic pluralistic society, then it seems that there is no doubt that there should be a place for religion and religious people in it. what is crucial for a democratic society is taking a suitable view on pluralism. there could ...

Abstract In this paper, I offer a pluralistic framework for disagreement and develop strategy to account the varieties of on basis truth across different domains discourse. Truth-pluralism is thus sufficient delivering pluralism about disagreement—that is, diaphonic pluralism.

Heterodox economists, most notably Tony Lawson, have come under suspicion of not being true pluralists, but ‘strategic pluralists’ or ‘paradigm warriors’. But should an advocate of pluralism be a pluralist himself? Though this assertion sounds like a truism, I argue against it. More specifically, this paper clarifies the notion of pluralism by introducing an often neglected but crucial distinct...

The so-called Exclusion argument (Kim 2000; Papineau 2004) about mental causation applies one premise that is typically accepted without much discussion: the thesis of causal completeness of the physical domain (CCP). In part one I evaluate Papineau’s (2001) argument for the CCP. I argue that this argument is not satisfying and that it is incomplete. The rest of the thesis is dedicated to an al...

One major focus of recent value‐pluralist literature has been the question of what normative consequences follow from pluralism. This essay critically examines three arguments that attempt to show that either liberalism or a bounded modus vivendi is the state of affairs that pluralism makes morally preferable. All three arguments are shown to encounter the same fundamental problem—once we have ...