TY - BOOK ID - 32086226 TI - Necessary Existence AU - Pruss, Alexander. AU - Rasmussen, Joshua L. PY - 2018 SN - 9780198746898 PB - Oxford Oxford university press DB - UniCat KW - Ontology. KW - Necessity (Philosophy) KW - Ontologie. KW - Nécessité. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32086226 AB - Necessary Existence' breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? The classic answer is in terms of a necessary foundation. Yet, why think that is the correct answer? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defense of the hypothesis that there is a concrete necessary being capable of providing a foundation for the existence of things. They offer six main arguments, divided into six chapters. The first argument is an up-to-date presentation and assessment of a traditional causal-based argument from contingency. The next five arguments are new "possibility-based" arguments that make use of twentieth-century advances in modal logic. The arguments present possible pathways to an intriguing and far-reaching conclusion. The final chapter answers the most challenging objections to the existence of necessary things. ER -