Why there is Something rather than Nothing (Paperback)

Bede Rundle

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006

0199288666 / 9780199288663

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Paperback. Why should there be anything at all? Why, in particular, should a material world exist? Bede Rundle advances clear, non-technical answers to these perplexing questions. If, as the theist maintains, God is a being who cannot but exist, his existence explains why there is something rather than nothing. However, this can also be explained on the basis of a weaker claim. Not that there is some particular being that has to be, but simply that there has to be something orother. 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 dependon 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 rivalcontenders; 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 questionwhether 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 purelyphilosophical terms, without appeal either to theology or cosmology. It will provoke and intrigue anyone who wonders about these questions. The question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?', has a strong claim to be philosophy's central, and most perplexing, question; and it has a capacity to set the head spinning. This title addresses the stalemate between theistic and naturalistic explanations with a philosophical approach, and presents some conclusions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
Why there is Something rather than Nothing (Paperback)
Autor
Bede Rundle
Verlag
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Veröffentlichungsjahr
2006
Zustand
new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0199288666
ISBN-13
9780199288663

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