Could there have been nothing?
Subtitle: against metaphysical nihilism
By: Geraldine Coggins
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780230573635
Subjects: Metaphysics; Nihilism
Description: "Could there have been nothing? is the first book-length study of metaphysical nihilism - the claim that there could have been no concrete objects. It critically analyses the debate around nihilism and related questions about the metaphysics of possible worlds, concrete objects and ontological dependence"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-168) and index.
Table of contents: title: Could there have been nothing?; title: Metaphysical nihilism and the subtraction argument; title: Possible worlds; title: Concreteness; title: Concreta, dependence and anti-nihilism; title: The metaphysics of subtraction; title: The trouble with metaphysical nihilism.