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The divine mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

John Leslie
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By ‘a blank’, let us mean a situation including no actual existents: nothing beyond such platonic realities as that three groups of five apples, were there to exist such groups, would contain fifteen apples in total. Now, why is there a world and not a blank?

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 47 , September 2000 , pp. 73 - 89
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2000

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1 I discuss this in Universes (Routledge: London and New York, 1989; paperback 1996)Google Scholar.

2 Quotations from Bohm's ‘A new theory of the relationship of mind and matter’, Philosophical Psychology, 3, 1990, pp. 271–86CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 On pages 101 to 103 of The End of the World (Routledge: London and New York, 1996Google Scholar; paperback with new Preface, 1998) I expand this with references to works by Bohm and B. Hiley; R. Penrose; I. N. Marshall; and above all Lockwood, M., Mind, Brain and the Quantum (Blackwell: Oxford, 1989)Google Scholar.

4 I am here using ideas from ‘The Value of Time’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 07 1976, pp. 109–121Google Scholar.

5 For more on various themes of this paper, see ‘Efforts to explain all existence’, Mind, 04 1978, pp. 181–94Google Scholar; Value and Existence (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979)Google Scholar; ‘The World's Necessary Existence’, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Winter 1980, pp. 207–24Google Scholar; ‘Mackie on Neoplatonism's “Replacement for God”’, Religious Studies, 09 1986, pp. 325–42Google Scholar; and ‘A Neoplatonist's Pantheism’, The Monist, 04 1997, pp. 218–31Google Scholar.