TY  - BOOK
AU  - Munitz,Milton K.
TI  - The Question of Reality
SN  - 9780691222134
AV  - BD331 
U1  - 111 22
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Creation
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Reality
KW  - Truth
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aquinas, Thomas
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - Big Bang (cosmology)
KW  - Bohr, Niels
KW  - Church Fathers
KW  - Cosmic Creator
KW  - Democritus
KW  - Descartes, René
KW  - Ein Sof (Kabbalah)
KW  - Friedmann, Alexander
KW  - Gnosticism
KW  - Godhead
KW  - Hawking, Stephen
KW  - Hobbes, Thomas
KW  - Kabbalah
KW  - Kant, Immanuel
KW  - Lemaitre, Georges
KW  - Maimonides
KW  - Newton, Isaac
KW  - Saadia (882–942)
KW  - Scholem, Gershom
KW  - Strawson, Peter
KW  - Talmudic sages
KW  - Wilson, Robert
KW  - appearance (phenomena)
KW  - being
KW  - boundless
KW  - certainty
KW  - cosmogonie myths
KW  - cosmological models
KW  - emanationism
KW  - epistemology
KW  - existence
KW  - grammar (Wittgenstein)
KW  - inflationary model of universe
KW  - mathematics
KW  - metaphysics
KW  - observable universe
KW  - ontology
KW  - pantheism
KW  - quantum: reality
KW  - rational art
KW  - realism
KW  - reality
KW  - science
KW  - theism
KW  - transcendence
KW  - unintelligibility
KW  - universe
KW  - world view
KW  - world, uses of term
N1  - Frontmatter --; Content --; Preface --; INTRODUCTION Central Questions --; Part 1 INHERITED GUIDELINES --; ONE Cosmic Creation --; TWO The Kantian Revolution --; THREE Wittgenstein Carries the Revolution Forward --; Part 2 BETWEEN AN ANSWER AND NO ANSWER --; FOUR What Is Reality? --; FIVE The Universe --; SIX Boundless Existence --; Index; restricted access
N2  - When we read that scientists have come close to pinpointing the "origin of the universe" by means of a Big Bang cosmology, or are engaged in formulating a "theory of everything," as in current ten-dimensional superstring theories of particle physics, can we doubt that such inquiries or their results inevitably raise important philosophical questions? In the present book, as well as in his previous work Cosmic Understanding, the renowned philosopher Milton Munitz attempts to answer some of these questions by examining recent scientific theories of cosmology in a philosophical context
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