Could there have been nothing?
Subtitle: against metaphysical nihilism
By: Geraldine Coggins
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780230573635
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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: Possible Worlds; title: The Subtraction Argument; title: The Metaphysics of Subtraction; title: World and Object; title: Metaphysical Nihilism; title: Anti-nihilism; title: Conclusion; title: Index.