"Infinite Minds" develops a Platonic creation story. The cosmos exists just because of the ethical need for it - we, and all the intricate structures of our universe, exist as thoughts in a divine mind that knows everything worth knowing. There could also be an infinite number of other universes in this mind, and after death we might explore the wonders of its knowledge. Minds of the same kind could exist in infinite number John Leslie unfolds his view of the nature of the universe, inspired by Spinoza, an influential philosophical rationalist.
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CONTRIBUTORS: John Leslie
EAN: 9780199248926
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 407 g
HEIGHT: 226 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-11-15
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GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
WIDTH: 146 cm
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Book Themes:
Philosophy of science, Cosmology and the universe, Philosophy of mind, Theology
A refreshingly daring book., A wonderful piece of speculative metaphysics, consistent with contemporary physics and cosmology ... Leslie has produced a wonderfully well worked out and quite attractive system of metaphysics. In any case in the course of his argument there is a succession of ingenious discussions of particular matters, including, as one would expect from him, discussions in the philosophy of cosmology., Provocative and ambitious.
John Leslie is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, Ontario, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
