The Dynamics of Non-Being
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Author(s)
Skow, Bradford
Date Issued
January 2010
Journal
Philosophers' Imprint
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Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Citation
Skow, Bradford. “The Dynamics of Non-being.” Philosophers' Imprint 10.1 (2010): 1-14.
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Final published version
Abstract
Maybe there is something rather than nothing because the nothingness force acted on itself, and when the nothing nothings itself it produces something. Robert Nozick suggested this as a candidate explanation of the fact that there is something rather than nothing. If he is right that it is a candidate explanation, we should pay attention: there are not many candidates out there. But his "explanation" looks, instead, like a paradigm case of philosophical nonsense. In this paper I describe a "metaphysical dynamics" that makes sense out of Nozick's apparent nonsense.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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