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Modern cosmology & philosophy
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Publication Date
1998
Language
English
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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.
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