Metaphysics and epistemology in stephen hawking's theory of the creation of the universe

Zygon

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 269-284

  Zycinski, Joseph M ^a  

^a Faculty of Philosophy   (Poland)

Author keywords

Being; Boundary conditions; Cosmological models; Creation; Instrumentalism; Logos; Nothingness; Physical vacuum; Quantum cosmology; Quantum mechanics; Scientific realism; Singularity; Theism; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749849495     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1996.tb00023.x     Document Type: Article

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