Could there have been Nothing?

Against Metaphysical Nihilism

Geraldine Coggins (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

171 Seiten

2010 | 1st ed. 2010
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-36476-3 (ISBN)

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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

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
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
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Schlagworte	Bibliography • Energy • Living • Metaphysics • Nihilism • Physics
ISBN-10	1-349-36476-2 / 1349364762
ISBN-13	978-1-349-36476-3 / 9781349364763
Zustand	Neuware