Screen LibraryThe philosophy of cosmology /
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| Group Author: | ; ; ; |
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| Published: |
Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 514 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107145399 (hardback) : 1107145392 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | BD493 |
| CLC: | P159 |
| Call Number: | P159/P568 |
| Contents: |
Part I - Issues in the philosophy of cosmology -- The domain of cosmology and the testing of cosmological theories / Black holes, cosmology and the passage of time: three problems / Moving boundaries? - Comments on the relationship between philosophy and cosmology / On the question why there exists something rather than nothing / Part II- Structures in the universe and the structure of modern cosmology -- Some generalities about generality / Emergent structures of effective field theories / Cosmological structure formation / Formation of galaxies / Part III - Foundations of cosmology: gravity and the quantum -- The observer strikes back / Testing inflation / Why Boltzmann brains do not fluctuate into existence from the de Sitter vacuum / Holographic inflation revised / Progress and gravity : overcoming divisions between general relativity and particle physics and between physics and HPS / Part IV - Quantum Foundations and Quantum Gravity -- Is time's arrow perspectival? / Relational quantum cosmology / Cosmological ontology and epistemology / Quantum origin of cosmological structure and dynamical reduction theories / Towards a novel approach to semi-classical gravity / Part V - Methodological and philosophical issues -- Limits of time in cosmology / Self-locating priors and cosmological measure / On probability and cosmology: inference beyond data? / Testing the multiverse: Bayes, fine-tuning and typicality / A new perspective on Einstein's philosophy of cosmology / The nature of the past hypothesis / Big and small / |