Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Worlds Without End

The Many Lives of the Multiverse

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exciting look at contemporary scientific cosmologies and their relationship to philosophy and religion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780231156622
• ISBN-10: 0231156626
• Artikelnr.: 38475358

Autorenporträt

Mary-Jane Rubenstein (PhD, Philosophy of Religion, Columbia) is Professor and Chair of Religion at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (Columbia, 2014) and Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (Columbia, 2009) and the coeditor (with Catherine Keller) of Entangled Worlds: Science, Religion, Materiality (Fordham, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: How to Avoid the G-Word
1. A Single, Complete Whole
2. Ancient Openings of Multiplicity
3. Navigating the Infinite
4. Measuring the Immeasurable
5. Bangs, Bubbles, and Branes: Atomists Versus Stoics, Take Two
6. Ascending to the Ultimate Multiverse
Unendings: On the Entanglement of Science and Religion
Notes
Bibliography
Index