ABSTRACT
William James, the American pragmatist and hesitant Protestant, goes further. He claims that the universe itself is pluralistic. He also acknowledges that this very thesis is profoundly contestable. So he is a pluralist in two senses: in the image of the universe that he embraces and in his appreciation that others might legitimately adopt other images of it. He insists that other philosophical faiths about the ultimate character of the universe make a claim upon his respect if not his concurrence. And he strives to make such a bicameral orientation reciprocal. We will examine metaphysical bicameralism as it unfolds in A Pluralistic Universe.
