Why There is Something Rather Than NothingOxford University Press, 2004 - 204 pagine 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. |
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