[lit-ideas] Re: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
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My last post today!
In a message dated 5/16/2014 1:01:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
As to why the universe is a something rather than a mere nothing, this is
a separate question. Which I'll answer later.
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For the record, below, the references (selected and slightly adapted) to
Sorensen, Roy, "Nothingness", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(Winter 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL =
<http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/nothingness/>.
which Sorensen opens with that very question -- and the title of the book
by B. B. Rundle (of Trinity, Oxford) with Oxford.
From the publisher's website:
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/why-there-is-something-rather-than-no
thing-9780199288663?q=Bede%20Rundle&lang=en&cc=us#
"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."
"B. B. Rundle challenges the stalemate between theistic and naturalistic
explanations with a rigorous, properly philosophical approach, and presents
some startlingly novel conclusions."
CONTENTS:
1. Theology and meaning
2. God and explanation
3. Causation and necessity
4. Creation and conservation
5. Essence and existence
6. Matter and abstractions
7. Mind and agency
8. Time and explanation
"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
Cheers,
Speranza
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Baldwin, T. “There might be nothing”, Analysis, 56.
Bennett, Jonathan, 1982, “Spinoza's Vacuum Argument”, Midwest Studies in
Philosophy (Volume 5), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Carnap, Rudolf, 1932, “The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical
Analysis of Language,” trans. Arthur
Pap, in A. J. Ayer (ed.), Logical Positivism, New York: The Free Press, 60–
81. Originally published in German in Erkenntnis, Volume 2.
Coggins, G.
Could There Have Been Nothing?
London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Erfid, D. and Stoneham, T., “The Subtraction Argument for Metaphysical
Nihilism”, Journal of Philosophy, 102: 303–325.
Erfid, D. and Stoneham, T., “Is Metaphysical Nihilism Interesting?”,
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 90(2): 210–231.
Lowe, E. J., “Why is There Anything at All?”, Proceedings of the
Aristotelian Society, 70: 111–120.
Parfit, Derek, “The Puzzle of Reality: Why does the Universe Exist?”, in
Metaphysics: The Big Questions, ed. Peter Van Inwagen and D. W. Zimmerman,
Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 418–426.
Rundle, Bede, Why is There Something Rather than Nothing? Oxford University
Press.
Schmitt, Charles, 1967, “Experimental Evidence for and Against a Void: the
Sixteenth-Century Arguments”, Isis, 58: 352–366.
Van Inwagen, Peter, 1996, “Why Is There Anything at All?”, Proceedings of
the Aristotelian Society, 70: 95–110.
Williams, C. J. F., 1984, “The Ontological Disproof of the Vacuum”,
Philosophy, 59: 382–384.
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