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Why does the world exist? : an existential detective story / Jim Holt.
In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddle of existence from the ancient world to modern times.--Amazon.com.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780871404091 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0871404095 (hbk.)
- Physical Description: 309 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Pub. Corp., [2012]
- Copyright: ©2012
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-294) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A quick proof that there must be something rather than nothing, for modern people who lead busy lives -- 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 CafeĢ 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 world as a bit of light verse -- The self : do I really exist? -- Return to nothingness -- Over the Seine. |
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| Subject: | Cosmology. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Highland Community Library | 113 HOL (Text) | 35610000844063 | HGHM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
