After Nothing: A Transcendental Inquiry into the Ground of Reality (The Origins of Existence Series, Band 2) - Softcover

Howard, Don

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798994251645

Verlag: Vibrant Ages LLC, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Why is there something rather than nothing?

Most answers to this question either speculate about what lies beyond experience or retreat into silence. After Nothing does neither.

Beginning from what is simply here — a world that is structured, conscious, normative, and free — Don Howard reasons backward by strict transcendental argument to what the ground of reality must be like in order for such a world to exist. Not what it might be. Not what we might prefer it to be. What it must be.

The result is a set of derived constraints on the ground of reality — precise, cumulative, and progressively tightened across fifteen chapters. These constraints are tested against the features of experience that resist easy explanation: consciousness, freedom, evil, suffering, love, and death. Each test sharpens the account and requires that it hold under pressure.

What emerges is not a familiar conclusion. The categories we have inherited — from science, theology, and philosophy — prove insufficient to what the argument establishes. The deepest reason may not lie in a failure of thought, but in a structural limit of finite description itself.

After Nothing is a work of serious philosophical argument. The opening chapters are demanding; what follows, while still rigorous, becomes more accessible as the argument unfolds. Readers who follow the full trajectory will arrive not at a final answer, but at something more precisely located: a carefully earned account of what reality must allow — and the point at which explanation reaches its limit.

Second volume in The Origins of Existence Trilogy. It can be read independently, though the full arc is cumulative.

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Don Howard, MD, PhD, is a philosopher, physician-scientist, and healthcare leader whose work unifies medicine, science, and metaphysical inquiry. Over more than three decades, he built his career in pathology, biotechnology, and executive leadership. Questions of existence, meaning, and the limits of scientific explanation have remained a central intellectual focus, one he has pursued through writing.As founder and CEO of CellNetix Pathology and Laboratories, one of the largest private pathology groups in the United States, Dr. Howard led advances in molecular oncology, precision diagnostics, and the integration of laboratory operations across major health systems. He has held academic and clinical roles including Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington and Chief of Pathology at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.He earned his medical degree from Albany Medical College and his PhD in experimental pathology from the University of British Columbia. He studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Boston University before pursuing medicine and science, and returned to it with greater rigor after confronting what science could not answer.For more information, visit https://www.vibrantages.com

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vibrant Ages LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798994251645
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 263
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