Worlds Without End - The Many Lives of the Multiverse

An exciting look at contemporary scientific cosmologies and their relationship to philosophy and religion.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: How to Avoid the G-Word
1. A Single, Complete Whole
2. Ancient Openings of Multiplicity
3. Navigating the Infinite
4. Measuring the Immeasurable
5. Bangs, Bubbles, and Branes: Atomists Versus Stoics, Take Two
6. Ascending to the Ultimate Multiverse
Unendings: On the Entanglement of Science and Religion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Mary-Jane Rubenstein (PhD, Philosophy of Religion, Columbia) is Professor and Chair of Religion at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (Columbia, 2014) and Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (Columbia, 2009) and the coeditor (with Catherine Keller) of Entangled Worlds: Science, Religion, Materiality (Fordham, 2017).

Summary

An exciting look at contemporary scientific cosmologies and their relationship to philosophy and religion.

Product details

• Authors: Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Mary-Jane (Professor and Chair Rubenstein, Rubenstein Mary-Jane
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780231156639
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15663-9
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Cosmology and the universe, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology