Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

by Bede Rundle

Overview

The question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?," has a strong claim to be philosophy's central, and most perplexing, question; it has a capacity to set the head spinning which few other philosophical problems can rival. Bede Rundle challenges the stalemate between theistic and naturalistic explanations with a rigorous, properly philosophical approach, and presents some startlingly novel conclusions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199288663
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/04/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Trinity College, Oxford University (Emeritus)

Table of Contents

1. Theology and meaning2. God and explanation3. Causation and necessity4. Creation and conservation5. Essence and existence6. Matter and abstractions7. Mind and agency8. Time and explanationBibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

"A valuable and...original contribution to metaphysics as a whole and, above all, a welcome contrast to much recent work of a more speculative nature."—Erik J. Olsson, Lund University

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