On Philip Goff's case for agentive cosmopsychism.
Recently, Philip Goff has argued that the idea of agentive cosmopsychism is the best explanation of cosmic fine-tuning. This idea suggests that our universe is a conscious subject which has capacity to recognize and respond to reasons or facts about value. In this article, by carefully examining the...
| Published in: | International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Vol. 96; no. 3; pp. 199 - 222 |
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Dec2024
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