Could there have been Nothing? - Geraldine Coggins

Could there have been Nothing?

Against Metaphysical Nihilism
Buch | Hardcover
171 Seiten
2010
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-57363-5 (ISBN)
53,49 inkl. MwSt
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?

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.

Preface Could there have been Nothing? Metaphysical Nihilism and the Subtraction Argument Possible Worlds Concreteness Concreta, Dependence and Anti-Nihilism The Metaphysics of Subtraction The Trouble with Metaphysical Nihilism Notes Bibliography Index

Zusatzinfo XII, 171 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Logik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10 0-230-57363-0 / 0230573630
ISBN-13 978-0-230-57363-5 / 9780230573635
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