Could there have been Nothing? [electronic resource] : Against Metaphysical Nihilism /
Coggins, Geraldine.author.
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?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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?
Epistemology.
Metaphysics.
Logic.
Ethics.
Religion—Philosophy.
Movement (Philosophy).
Epistemology.
Metaphysics.
Logic.
Ethics.
Philosophy of Religion.
Philosophical Traditions.