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The puzzle of existence : why is there something rather than nothing? / edited by Tyron Goldschmidt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
- Routledge studies in metaphysics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gerontology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <P>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 phi
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1 Introduction: Understanding the Question; 2 Could There Be a Complete Explanation of Everything?; 3 Ultimate Naturalistic Causal Explanations; 4 Reasoning Without the Principle of Sufficient Reason; 5 The Principle of Sufficient Reason and the Grand Inexplicable; 6 Contingency, Dependence, and the Ontology of the Many; 7 Conceiving Absolute Greatness; 8 A Proof of God's Reality; 9 Methodological Separatism, Modal Pluralism, and Metaphysical Nihilism; 10 Contingency; 11 Metaphysical Nihilism Revisited
- 12 The Subtraction Arguments for Metaphysical Nihilism: Compared and Defended13 The Probabilistic Explanation of Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing; 14 Are Some Things Naturally Necessary?; 15 Questioning the Question; 16 Ontological Pluralism, the Gradation of Being, and the Question ""Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?""; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-138-82344-9
- 0-203-10432-3
- 1-136-24922-2
- 1-136-24923-0
- 9780203104323
- OCLC:
- 870228475
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