Synopses & Reviews
The question "Why is there something rather than nothing"? has a strong claim to be philosophy's central, and most perplexing, question; it has a capacity to set the head spinning which few other philosophical problems can rival. Bede Rundle challenges the stalemate between theistic and naturalistic explanations with a rigorous, properly philosophical approach, and presents some startlingly novel conclusions.
Review
"Bede Rundle has written what is perhaps the most thought-provoking contribution to atheistic philosophy of religion in recent times."--Philosophia Christi
"A valuable and...original contribution to metaphysics as a whole and, above all, a welcome contrast to much recent work of a more speculative nature."--Erik J. Olsson, Lund University
Synopsis
The question "Why is there something rather than nothing"? has a strong claim to be philosophy's central, and most perplexing, question; it has a capacity to set the head spinning which few other philosophical problems can rival. Bede Rundle challenges the stalemate between theistic and naturalistic explanations with a rigorous, properly philosophical approach, and presents some startlingly novel conclusions.
Table of Contents
1. Theology and meaning
2. God and explanation
3. Causation and necessity
4. Creation and conservation
5. Essence and existence
6. Matter and abstractions
7. Mind and agency
8. Time and explanation
Bibliography
Index