Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 314 g
Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 314 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-928866-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford
other. Rundle proffers arguments for thinking that that is indeed how the question is to be put to rest.
Traditionally, the existence of the physical universe is held to depend on God, but the theist faces a major difficulty in making clear how a being outside space and time, as God is customarily conceived to be, could stand in an intelligible relation to the world, whether as its creator or as the author of events within it. Rundle argues that a creator of physical reality is not required, since there is no alternative to its existence. There has to be something, and a physical universe is the
only real possibility. He supports this claim by eliminating rival contenders; he dismisses the supernatural, and argues that, while other forms of being, notably the abstract and the mental, are not reducible to the physical, they presuppose its existence. The question whether ultimate explanations
can ever be given is forever in the background, and the book concludes with an investigation of this issue and of the possibility that the universe could have existed for an infinite time. Other topics discussed include causality, space, verifiability, essence, existence, necessity, spirit, fine tuning, and laws of Nature.
Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing 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.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
- Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeitmessung: Physikalische und Technische Aspekte
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
- Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie