| TÃtulo : | Why does the world exist? : an existential detective story /? Jim Holt. | | Tipo de documento: | texto impreso | | Autores: | Holt, Jim, Autor | | Editorial: | New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corp. | | Fecha de publicación: | 2013 | | Número de páginas: | vi, 308 p. | | Dimensiones: | 21 cm. | | ISBN/ISSN/DL: | 9780871403599 | | Nota general: | Includes bibliographical references and index. | | Palabras clave: | Cosmology. | | Nota de contenido: | Contents: A quick proof that there must be something rather than nothing, for modern people who lead busy lives -- Confronting the mystery -- Could our world have been created by a hacker? -- Philosophical tour d'horizon -- The arithmetic of nothingness -- A brief history of nothing -- The Great Rejectionist -- Finite or infinite? -- Night thoughts at the Cafe de Flore -- The inductive theist of North Oxford -- The supreme brute fact -- The Magus of the Multiverse -- The end of explanation -- The ultimate free lunch? -- Nausea -- Waiting for the final theory -- A word on many worlds -- Platonic reflections -- It from bit -- "The ethical requiredness of their being something" -- An Hegelian in Paris -- The last word from All Souls -- The proof -- The world as a bit of light verse -- The self: do I really exist? -- Return to nothingness -- Over the Seine. |
Why does the world exist? : an existential detective story /? Jim Holt. [texto impreso] / Holt, Jim, Autor . - New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corp., 2013 . - vi, 308 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN : 9780871403599 Includes bibliographical references and index. | Palabras clave: | Cosmology. | | Nota de contenido: | Contents: A quick proof that there must be something rather than nothing, for modern people who lead busy lives -- Confronting the mystery -- Could our world have been created by a hacker? -- Philosophical tour d'horizon -- The arithmetic of nothingness -- A brief history of nothing -- The Great Rejectionist -- Finite or infinite? -- Night thoughts at the Cafe de Flore -- The inductive theist of North Oxford -- The supreme brute fact -- The Magus of the Multiverse -- The end of explanation -- The ultimate free lunch? -- Nausea -- Waiting for the final theory -- A word on many worlds -- Platonic reflections -- It from bit -- "The ethical requiredness of their being something" -- An Hegelian in Paris -- The last word from All Souls -- The proof -- The world as a bit of light verse -- The self: do I really exist? -- Return to nothingness -- Over the Seine. |
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