Why does the world exist? : : an existential detective story / 1st ed.

Why does the world exist? : : an existential detective story /

1st ed.

Material type: 図書

Author: -

Publisher: Liveright Pub. Corp.,

Publication date: c2012.

Material Format: Paper

Capacity, size, etc.: vi, 309 p. ; ; 25 cm.

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Note (General)：: A quick proof that there must be something rather than nothing, for modern people who lead busy lives -- Confronting the mystery -- Could our world ha...

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112.0-H75-W
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Material Type: 図書
ISBN: 0871404095 (hardcover)
9780871404091 (hardcover)
Title: Why does the world exist? : : an existential detective story /
Edition: 1st ed.
Publication, Distribution, etc.: New York : : Liveright Pub. Corp.,
Publication Date: c2012.
Extent: vi, 309 p. ; ; 25 cm.
Contributor: Jim Holt.
Text Language Code: eng
NDC 10th ed.: 112 : Philosophy of nature. Cosmology
Target Audience: 一般
Note (General): 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 Café 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 there being something" -- 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.
Availability: 閲可/個否/協可
Holding library: 東京都立中央図書館
Note (Library): 所蔵場所 : 3FC開
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Call No.: 112.0-H75-W
Data Provider (Database): 東京都立中央図書館 : 公共図書館蔵書
Bibliographic ID (SomokuID): 1352006128
7102129250
OCLC No.: 2012015177
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2012015177
(OCoLC)793973660
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/(OCoLC)793973660