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Tables of Contents for Modern Cosmology & Philosophy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Second Edition
vii
Preface to the First Edition
ix
Introduction
1
34
Is Philosophy Relevant to Cosmology?
35
22
Ernan McMullin
Modern Cosmology
57
13
George Gamow
Relativistic Theories of the Universe
70
6
W. B. Bonnor
The Steady-State Theory of the Universe
76
5
H. Bondi
The 13,000,000,000 Year Bang
81
9
Martin Rees
Was There a Big Bang?
90
8
Jayant Narlikar
The Pseudo-Problem of Creation in Physical Cosmology
98
21
Adolf Grunbaum
Cosmology and Verifiability
119
8
G. F. R. Ellis
Dirac's Cosmology and Mach's Principle
127
4
R. H. Dicke
Large Number Coincidences and the Anthropic Principle in Cosmology
131
9
Brandon Carter
On the Origin, Evolution and the Purpose of the Physical Universe
140
20
B. J. Carr
Argument from the Fine-Tuning of the Universe
160
20
Richard Swinburne
A Cozy Cosmology
180
7
Heinz R. Pagels
Mind and Supermind
187
8
Stephen Jay Gould
Cosmological Fecundity: Theories of Multiple Universes
195
18
George Gale
Beyond the End of Time
213
9
John Archibald Wheeler
Is the Universe a Vacuum Fluctuation?
222
4
Edward P. Tryon
What Caused the Big Bang?
226
19
Paul Davies
The Universe: Inflation Out Of Chaos
245
9
Andrei Linde
Possible Forms of Life in Environments Very Different from the Earth
254
8
Robert Shapiro
Gerald Feinberg
Atmospheric Evolution, the Drake Equation, and DNA: Sparse Life in an Infinite Universe
262
11
Michael H. Hart
Emerging Questions and Uncertainties
273
16
G. F. R. Ellis
The Anthropic Principle Today
289
22
John Leslie
Our Place in the Universe
311
8
Paul Davies
``What Place, then, for a Creator?'': Hawking on God and Creation
319
20
William Lane Craig
Toward Infinity: The Far Future
339
14
Martin Rees
Suggestions for Further Reading
353
7
Glossary
360