Cosmological Fine-Tuning Arguments - Couverture souple

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Waller, Jason

 
9781032089737: Cosmological Fine-Tuning Arguments
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ISBN 10 : 1032089733 ISBN 13 : 9781032089737
Editeur : Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

If the physical constants, initial conditions, or laws of nature in our universe had been even slightly different, then the evolution of life would have been impossible. This observation has led many philosophers and scientists to ask the natural next question: why is our universe so "fine-tuned" for life? The debates around this question are wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary, complicated, technical, and (at times) heated. This study is a comprehensive investigation of these debates and the many metaphysical and epistemological questions raised by cosmological fine-tuning. Waller's study reaches two significant and controversial conclusions. First, he concludes that the criticisms directed at the "multiverse hypothesis" by theists and at the "theistic hypothesis" by naturalists are largely unsuccessful. Neither of these options can plausibly be excluded. Choosing between them seems to turn on primitive (and so hard to justify) metaphysical intuitions. Second, in order to break the philosophical deadlock, Waller moves the debate from the level of universes to the level of possible worlds. Arguing that possible worlds are also "fine-tuned" in an important and interesting sense, Waller concludes that the only plausible explanation for the fine-tuning of the actual world is to posit the existence of some kind of "God-like-thing."

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À propos de l?auteur

Jason Waller is an associate professor of philosophy at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. His previous books include the Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Spinoza on Politics (2016) and Persistence through Time in Spinoza (2012).

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1032089733
ISBN 13 
9781032089737
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Nombre de pages
338
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9781138742079: Cosmological Fine-Tuning Arguments: What If Anything Should We Infer from the Fine-Tuning of Our Universe for Life?

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ISBN 10 :  1138742074 ISBN 13 :  9781138742079
Editeur : Routledge, 2019
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