Published
Papers by Quentin Smith, Philosophy Professor, on
The Philosophy of Physical
Cosmology
Papers are listed chronologically,
starting with the most recent.
The Black Hole Origin Theory of the Universe and
Quantum Gravity (2004)
Time
Was Created by a Timeless Point: An Atheist Explanation of Spacetime (2001)
Concerning the Metaphysical Necessity of the Universe Beginning Uncaused: A
Reply to George Nakhnikian (2000)
Problems with John Earman's Attempt to Reconcile Theism with General Relativity
(2000)
The
Reason the Universe Exists is that it Caused Itself to Exist (1998)
Absolute
Simultaneity and the Infinity of Time (1998)
Swinburne's Explanation of
the Universe (1998)
Why
Stephen Hawking's Cosmology Precludes a Creator (1998)
Simplicity
and Why the Universe Exists (1997)
Quantum
Cosmology's Implication of Atheism (1997)
The
Ontological Interpretation of the Wave Function of the Universe (1997)
Internal
and External Causal Explanations of the Universe (1995)
A Defense of a
Principle of Sufficient Reason (1995)
Did the Big Bang Have A Cause?
(1994)
Can Everything Come to Be Without a Cause? (1994)
A
Big Bang Cosmological Argument For God's Nonexistence (1992)
Anthropic
Coincidences, Evil and the Disconfirmation of Theism (1992)
Atheism,
Theism and Big Bang Cosmology (1991)
The
New Theory of Reference Entails Absolute Time and Space (1991)
A Natural Explanation of the Existence and Laws of Our Universe (1990)
A
New Typology of Temporal and Atemporal Permanence (1989)
The Uncaused Beginning of the Universe (1988)
Infinity and the Past (1987)
On
the Beginning of Time (1985)
The
Mind-Independence of Temporal Becoming (1985)
The Anthropic Principle and Many-Worlds Cosmologies (1985)