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245 00 a| Modern cosmology & philosophy /c| edited by John Leslie.;

246 3 a| Modern cosmology and philosophy;

260 a| Amherst, N.Y. :b| Prometheus Books,c| 1998.;

300 a| ix, 363 pages ;c| 23 cm;

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338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| Rev. ed. of: Physical cosmology and philosophy. c1990.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-359).;

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Modern cosmology & philosophy / edited by John Leslie.

Other author	Leslie, John, 1940-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1998.
Description	ix, 363 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects	Cosmology. Philosophy.

Variant title	Modern cosmology and philosophy
Contents	Is philosophy relevant to cosmology? / Ernan McMullin -- Modern cosmology / George Gamow -- Relativistic theories of the universe / W.B. Bonnor -- Steady-state theory of the universe / H. Bondi -- 13,000,000,000 year bang / Martin Rees -- Was there a big bang? / Jayant Narlikar -- Pseudo-problem of creation in physical cosmology / Adolf Grünbaum -- Cosmology and verifiability / G.F.R. Ellis -- Dirac's cosmology and Mach's principle / R.H. Dicke -- Large number coincidences and the anthropic principle in cosmology / Brandon Carter -- On the origin, evolution and the purpose of the physical universe / B.J. Carr -- Argument from the fine-tuning of the universe / Richard Swinburne -- Cozy cosmology / Heinz R. Pagels -- Mind and supermind / Stephen Jay Gould -- Cosmological fecundity : theories of multiple universes / George Gale -- Beyond the end of time / John Archibald Wheeler -- Is the universe a vacuum fluctuation / Edward P. Tryon -- What caused the big bang? / Paul Davies -- Universe : inflation out of chaos / Andrei Linde -- Possible forms of life in environments very different from the Earth / Robert Shapiro, Gerald Feinberg -- Atmospheric evolution, the Drake equation, and DNA : sparse life in an infinite universe / Michael H. Hart -- Emerging questions and uncertainties / G.F.R. Ellis -- Anthropic principle today / John Leslie -- Our place in the universe / Paul Davies -- "What place, then, for a creator?" : Hawking on God and creation / William Lane Craig -- Toward infinity : the far future / Martin Rees.
General note	Rev. ed. of: Physical cosmology and philosophy. c1990.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-359).
Other title	Physical cosmology and philosophy.
LCCN	98047273
ISBN	1573922501 (alk. paper)

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