@article{f13a3ec9b01144e985e20caa75d578c2,
title = "Explaining Why There is Something Rather than Nothing",
abstract = "It is sometimes supposed that, in principle, we cannot offer an explanation for why there is something rather than nothing. I argue that this supposition is a mistake, and stems from a needlessly myopic conception of the form explanations can legitimately take. After making this more general point, I proceed to offer a speculative suggestion regarding one sort of explanation which can in principle serve as an answer to the question “why is there something rather than nothing?” The suggestion is that there may be something rather than nothing in virtue of the truth of certain sorts of subjunctive conditionals.",
author = "Andrew Brenner",
note = "Funding Information: Open access funding provided by University of Gothenburg. Thanks to anonymous referees, Rebecca Chan, Peter Finocchiaro, Anna-Sofia Maurin, Gabriel Rabin, Melanie Rosen, Pierre Saint-Germier, Johanna Seibt, Maetias Skipper, Alexander Skiles, Robin Stenwall, Naomi Thompson, Gustavo Fernandez Walker, Robbie Williams, the audience at a November 2018 Research Colloquium in Theoretical Analytical Philosophy at Aarhus University, and the audience at the 2019 Swedish Congress of Philosophy at Ume{\aa} University. Work on this paper was supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Funding Information: Open access funding provided by University of Gothenburg. Thanks to anonymous referees, Rebecca Chan, Peter Finocchiaro, Anna-Sofia Maurin, Gabriel Rabin, Melanie Rosen, Pierre Saint-Germier, Johanna Seibt, Maetias Skipper, Alexander Skiles, Robin Stenwall, Naomi Thompson, Gustavo Fernandez Walker, Robbie Williams, the audience at a November 2018 Research Colloquium in Theoretical Analytical Philosophy at Aarhus University, and the audience at the 2019 Swedish Congress of Philosophy at Ume{\aa} University. Work on this paper was supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, The Author(s).",
year = "2022",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1007/s10670-020-00277-6",
language = "English",
volume = "87",
pages = "1831–1847",
journal = "Erkenntnis",
issn = "0165-0106",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "4",
}