Purpose in the Universe: The Moral and Metaphysical Case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism

by Tim Mulgan

Book Overview

Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent God of the Abrahamic faiths. Tim Mulgan explores a third way. Ananthropocentric Purposivism claims that there is a cosmic purpose, but human beings are irrelevant to it. Purpose in the Universe develops a philosophical case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism that it is at least as strong as the case for either theism or atheism. The book borrows traditional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198822774
• ISBN13: 9780198822776
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"