Why does the world exist? : one man's quest for the big answer /: one man's quest for the big answer. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jim Holt.
• Authors: Holt, Jim, 1954-
• Contents: 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 Café 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 word as a bit of light verse -- The self: do i really exist? -- Return to nothingness -- Epilogue: over the seine.
• Publisher Details: London : Profile Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 307 pages)
• Subjects: 142.78; Existentialism; Cosmology; Philosophy; Science -- Philosophy -- Popular works; Cosmology; Existentialism; Philosophy; Science -- Philosophy; Popular works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847654106
• Related ISBNs: 184765410X; 1846682452; 9781846682452
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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