Why does the world exist? an existential detective story
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Liveright Pub. Corp.,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 008 | 120412s2012 nyu b 001 0 eng | ||
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| 100 | 1 | |a Holt, Jim, |d 1954- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Why does the world exist? : |b an existential detective story / |c Jim Holt. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Liveright Pub. Corp., |c c2012. | ||
| 300 | |a 309 p. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-294) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a A quick proof that there must be something rather than nothing, for modern people who lead busy lives -- Confronting the mystery -- Interlude : Could our world have been created by a hacker? -- Philosophical tour d'horizon -- Interlude : The arithmetic of nothingness -- A brief history of nothing -- The Great Rejectionist -- Finite or infinite? -- Interlude : Night thoughts at the Café de Flore -- The inductive theist of North Oxford -- Interlude : The supreme brute fact -- The Magus of the Multiverse -- Interlude : The end of explanation -- The ultimate free lunch? -- Interlude : Nausea -- Waiting for the final theory -- Interlude : A word on many worlds -- Platonic reflections -- Interlude : It from bit -- "The ethical requiredness of there being something" -- Interlude : An Hegelian in Paris -- The last word from All Souls -- Epistolary interlude : The proof -- The world as a bit of light verse -- The self : do I really exist? -- Return to nothingness -- Over the Seine. | |
| 520 | 1 | |a In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddle of existence from the ancient world to modern times.--Amazon.com. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Cosmology. | |
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