New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.;© 2013
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Part of the series Routledge studies in metaphysics 6;Routledge studies in metaphysics 6.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : understanding the question / Tyron Goldschmidt — Could there be a complete explanation of everything? / Timothy O’Connor — Ultimate naturalistic causal explanations / Graham Oppy — Reasoning without the principle of sufficient reason / Shieva Kleinschmidt — The principle of sufficient reason and the grand inexplicable / Jacob Ross — Contingency, dependence, and the ontology of the many / Christopher Hughes — Conceiving absolute greatness / Earl Conee — A proof of God’s reality / John Leslie — Methodological separatism, modal pluralism, and metaphysical nihilism / David Efird and Tom Stoneham — Contingency / John Heil — Metaphycial nihilism revisited / E. J. Lowe — The subtraction arguments for metaphysical nihilism : compared and defended / Gonzalo Rodriquez-Pereyra — The probabilistic explanation of why there is something rather than nothing / Matthew Kotzen — Are some things naturally necessary? / Marc Lange — Questioning the question / Stephen Maitzen — Ontological pluralism, the gradiation of being, and the question why is there something rather than nothing? / Kris McDaniel.
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