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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Table of Contents:
- 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 CafeĢ 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.
