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  1. Why Anything? Why This?Derek Parfit - 2004 - In Tim Crane & Katalin Farkas (eds.), Metaphysics: a guide and anthology. New York: Oxford University Press.
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  • Atheism.Paul Edwards - 1967 - In The Encyclopedia of philosophy. New York,: Macmillan. pp. 1--174.
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  • Contingentia Mundi. Leibniz on the World's Contingency.Nicholas Rescher - 2001 - Studia Leibnitiana 33 (2):145 - 162.
    Leibniz' Metaphysik sieht sich mit folgender Aporie konfrontiert: (1) Notwendigerweise gilt: Gott verwirklicht die beste mögliche Wahl. (2) Notwendigerweise gilt: die mögliche Welt, die auf die Beschreibung der tatsächlichen Welt antwortet, ist die beste aller möglichen Welten. (3) Die Existenz der tatsächlichen Welt (als die von Gott erschaffene) ist nicht notwendig, sondern möglich. Diese drei Sätze - die alle von Leibniz anerkannt worden sind - sind gemeinsam allem Anschein nach inkonsistent. Um diese Inkonsistenz zu vermeiden, entwickelt Leibniz eine komplexe Strategie, (...)
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  • The Puzzle of Reality: Why Does the Universe Exist?Derek Parfit - 1991 - In Peter van Inwagen & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), Metaphysics: The Big Questions. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 418-427.
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  • Minimizing Arbitrariness: Toward a Metaphysics of Infinitely Many Isolated Concrete Worlds.Peter Unger - 1984 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 9 (1):29-51.
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  • Efforts to explain all existence.John Leslie - 1978 - Mind 87 (346):181-194.
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  • (1 other version)The Two Sources of Morality and Religion.Henri Bergson, R. Ashley Audra & Cloudesley Brereton - 1936 - Philosophy 11 (41):98-102.
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  • (5 other versions)Philosophical Explanations.Robert Nozick - 1981 - Mind 93 (371):450-455.
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  • (5 other versions)Philosophical Explanations. [REVIEW]Robert Nozick - 1981 - Ethics 94 (2):326-327.
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  • (1 other version)Statistical explanation.Wesley C. Salmon - 1970 - In Robert G. Colodny (ed.), The Nature and Function of Scientific Theories: Essays in Contemporary Science and Philosophy. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 173--231.
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  • Prof. Grünbaum on the ‘normalcy of nothingness’ in the Leibnizian and Kalam cosmological arguments.William Lane Craig - 2001 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52 (2):371-386.
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  • The presumption of nothingness.Erik Carlson & Erik J. Olsson - 2001 - Ratio 14 (3):203–221.
    Several distinguished philosophers have argued that since the state of affairs where nothing exists is the simplest and least arbitrary of all cosmological possibilities, we have reason to be surprised that there is in fact a non-empty universe. We review this traditional argument, and defend it against two recent criticisms put forward by Peter van Inwagen and Derek Parfit. Finally, we argue that the traditional argument nevertheless needs reformulation, and that the cogency of the reformulated argument depends partly on whether (...)
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