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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Summary     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Holt, Jim, 1954-     Subjects     Cosmology.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Holt, Jim, 1954-       by title:      Why does the world e...         MARC Display

Why does the world exist? : an existential detective story / Jim Holt. by Holt, Jim, 1954- New York : Liveright Pub. Corp., 2012 Subjects Cosmology. ISBN:  9780871404091 (hardcover) 0871404095 (hardcover) Description:  vi, 309 p. ; 25 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  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 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 world as a bit of light verse -- The self : do I really exist? -- Return to nothingness -- Over the Seine.   Copy/Holding information Call No. Collection Status Copy Location   BD511 .H65 2012 Circulating Books Checked In   St. Clair County Community College Add Copy to MyList BD511 .H65 2012 Circulating Books Checked In c.2 St. Clair County Community College Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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