Why there is something rather than nothing / Bede Rundle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rundle, Bede.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work offers an explanation of fundamental facts of existence in purely philosophical terms, without appeal either to theology or cosmology. It will provoke and intrigue anyone who wonders about these questions.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""1. Theology and Meaning""; ""1.1 Meaning and Verification""; ""1.2 Analogy and God's Attributes""; ""1.3 Other Minds and Religious Experience""; ""2. God and Explanation""; ""2.1 Miracles and Design""; ""2.2 Fine Tuning""; ""2.3 Laws of Nature""; ""3. Causation and Necessity""; ""3.1 Hume, Causes, and Necessity""; ""3.2 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions""; ""3.3 Causation and Connection""; ""4. Creation and Conservation""; ""4.1 Divine Agency""; ""4.2 God and Time""; ""4.3 Sustaining Causes and Persistence""; ""5. Essence and Existence""

""5.1 Cosmological and Ontological Arguments""""5.2 Whether There Might Have Been Nothing""; ""5.3 Beginning and Ceasing to Be""; ""6. Matter and Abstractions""; ""6.1 The Necessity of the Physical""; ""6.2 Abstractions and Number""; ""6.3 Mathematics and Necessity""; ""7. Mind and Agency""; ""7.1 Making Sense of Mind""; ""7.2 Mind and Action""; ""7.3 Spirits and Forces""; ""8. Time and Explanation""; ""8.1 Time and Infinity""; ""8.2 Causal Series and Explanation""; ""8.3 An End to Explanations""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""

""K""""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-200) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-928866-6

1-281-19834-X

9786611198343

0-19-153367-X

1-4294-2030-8

OCLC:

77003201