Could there have been Nothing?

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Against Metaphysical Nihilism

ISBN: 0230573630
ISBN 13: 9780230573635
Autor: Coggins, Geraldine
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xii, 171 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

First book length study A fundamental metaphysical question which has a genuine fascination for many people: Most of us wonder why the universe is the way it is, why there is a universe at all? An issue that has come to the fore in contemporary analytic metaphysics in the last 10-15 years Raises important issues in related areas of philosophy including: the modal ontology, the ontology of sets, possible world theory, and the abstract / concrete distinction

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Beschreibung

The first book-length study of metaphysical nihilism: an analytical treatment of one of the most intriguing and fundamental questions in contemporary analytic metaphysics: Could there have been nothing at all? No physical universe, no people, no living beings, no planets, no atoms, no matter, no energy - nothing?

Autorenporträt

GERALDINE COGGINS Lecturer in Philosophy at Keele University, UK. She holds a PhD in contemporary analytic metaphysics from Durham University, as well as Philosophy degrees from the University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. She has previously taught at Aberdeen, York and Durham Universities.

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