Puzzle of Existence
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Absolute Space
Antipodal Points
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contingency in existence debates
Counterfactual Antecedent
Daytona Beach
Distinctness Principle
Emperor Penguins
Empty World
Endless Regress
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existence
God
Infi Nite Minds
Island Universes
Lebesgue Measure
Max Tegmark
MAXIMALITY CONSTRAINT
Mereological Fusions
metaphysical explanation
metaphysical nihilism
metaphysics
modal metaphysics
Natural Necessity
nomological
Noncausal Explanation
Objective Chance
ontological dependence
Ontological Pluralism
philosophical cosmology
philosophy
principle of sufficient reason
religion
science
Substantial Kind
Subtraction Argument
theology
Thing's Existence
Thing’s Existence
True Contingent Propositions
Van Inwagen
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780415624657
- Weight: 572g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does everything need an explanation? Or can there be brute, inexplicable facts? Could there have been nothing whatsoever? Or is there any being that could not have failed to exist? Is the question meaningful after all? The volume advances cutting-edge debates in metaphysics, philosophy of cosmology and philosophy of religion, and will intrigue and challenge readers interested in any of these subjects.
Tyron Goldschmidt is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University, USA.
