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Could there have been Nothing?

Against Metaphysical Nihilism

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Geraldine Coggins

    1. Keele University, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Could There Have Been Nothing?

    • Geraldine Coggins
    Pages 1-10

  3. Metaphysical Nihilism and the Subtraction Argument

    • Geraldine Coggins
    Pages 11-25

  4. Possible Worlds

    • Geraldine Coggins
    Pages 26-56

  5. Concreteness

    • Geraldine Coggins
    Pages 57-85

  6. Concreta, Dependence and Anti-Nihilism

    • Geraldine Coggins
    Pages 86-116

  7. The Metaphysics of Subtraction

    • Geraldine Coggins
    Pages 117-136

  8. The Trouble with Metaphysical Nihilism

    • Geraldine Coggins
    Pages 137-142

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 143-171
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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?

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  • Keele University, UK

    Geraldine Coggins

About the author

GERALDINE COGGINS Lecturer in Philosophy at Keele University, UK. She holds a PhD in contemporary analytic metaphysics from Durham University, as well as Philosophy degrees from the University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. She has previously taught at Aberdeen, York and Durham Universities.

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