The Puzzle of Existence

Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Herausgeber: Goldschmidt, Tyron

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780415624657
• ISBN-10: 0415624657
• Artikelnr.: 36947645

Autorenporträt

Tyron Goldschmidt is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Understanding the Question Tyron Goldschmidt 2. Could
There Be a Complete Explanation of Everything? Timothy O'Connor 3. Ultimate
Naturalistic Causal Explanations Graham Oppy 4. Explanatory Power and the
Principle of Sufficient Reason Shieva Kleinschmidt 5. The Principle of
Sufficient Reason and the Grand Inexplicable Jacob Ross 6. Contingency,
Dependence, and the Ontology of the Many Christopher Hughes 7. Conceiving
Absolute Greatness Earl Conee 8. A Proof of God's Reality John Leslie 9.
Metaphysical Nihilism Revisited E.J. Lowe 10. Contingency John Heil 11.
Methodological Separatism, Modal Pluralism, and Metaphysical Nihilism
David Efird and Tom Stoneham 12. The Subtraction Arguments for Metaphysical
Nihilism: Compared and Defended Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra 13. The
Probabilistic Explanation of Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Matthew Kotzen 14. Are Some Things Naturally Necessary? Marc Lange 15.
Questioning the Question Stephen Maitzen 16. Ontological Pluralism, the
Gradation of Being, and the Question "Why is there Something Rather than
Nothing?" Kris McDaniel