Beschreibung:
The first book-length study of metaphysical nihilism: an analytical treatment of one of the most intriguing and fundamental questions in contemporary analytic metaphysics: Could there have been nothing at all? No physical universe, no people, no living beings, no planets, no atoms, no matter, no energy - nothing?
The first book-length study of metaphysical nihilism: an analytical treatment of one of the most intriguing and basic questions in contemporary analytic metaphysics: Could there have been nothing?
Preface Could there have been Nothing? Metaphysical Nihilism and the Subtraction Argument Possible Worlds Concreteness Concreta, Dependence and Anti-Nihilism The Metaphysics of Subtraction The Trouble with Metaphysical Nihilism Notes Bibliography Index