Brian Leftow - Why is There Anything at All?

Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: https://bit.ly/3He94Ns Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Why is there a world, a cosmos, something, anything instead of absolutely nothing at all? If nothing existed, there would be nothing to explain. That anything exists demands some kind of explanation. Of all the big questions, this is the biggest. Why anything? Why not nothing? What can we learn from the absence of nothing? Support the show with Closer To Truth merchandise: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje Watch more interviews on the mystery of existence: https://bit.ly/4517rvV Brian Leftow is the William P. Alston Professor for the Philosophy of Religion at Rutgers University. He was formerly the Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oriel College, Oxford. Get free access to Closer To Truth's library of 5,000 videos: https://closertotruth.com/ Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.