Essays on Ultimate Questions: Critical Discussions of the Limits of Contemporary Philosophical InquiryThirteen (largely) thematically unconnected essays dealing with some ultimate, but not esoteric, questions in modern metaphysical epistemology. |
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why is there something rather than nothing? | 1 |
Does anything really exist? | 21 |
5 minutes? | 35 |
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