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- Type of Document: Ph.D. Dissertation
- Language: Farsi
- Document No: 53334 (42)
- University: Sharif University of Technology
- Department: Philosophy of Science
- Advisor(s): Azadegan, Ebrahim
- Abstract:
- Among fundamental metaphysical quests, one might wonder: Why is there anything at all rather than just nothing? Many contemporary thinkers reject that question because they think it is meaningless, trivial, or necessarily unanswerable. So, most of them view the world’s existence as a brute fact. But I provide reasons for thinking that the Why question could make sense and one might even expect an answer to it. I begin by showing that the Why question could meaningfully ask why the world is not empty of all concrete things. One might regard this question as important if one accepts that it is, in some sense, possible for all concrete things to vanish, one-by-one. Next, against the traditional belief that concrete existence can be derived only from concete things, I argue that possible replies to the Why question concerning concrete things might point to realities that are not concrete. Meanwhile, I point to the views of some supporters of the Platonic Theory of Forms, who argue that actual concrete existence can be explained through abstract realities about possibilities. Then I develop my argument for deriving actuality from possibility by showing: many who think they reject all paths for explaining actuality by abstract facts about possibilities in fact follow such paths. The question of why there exists anything concrete might be answered not by saying that the world exists reasonlessly, but by following some such paths: Having a certain nature for something concrete can turn its possibility into its actuality. Still, we might in the end be forced to accept that the world exists without any reason
- Keywords:
- Brute Fact ; Nothingness ; Metaphysical Nihilism ; Actuality and Possibility ; Existence Explanation ; Concrete and Abstract Existence
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