The Philosophy of Cosmology

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology............1 The domain of Cosmology and the testing of Cosmological Theories ..3 Black holes, cosmology and the Passage of Time: Three problems at the Limits of Science...........40 Moving boundaries? Comments on the Relationship between Philosophy and Cosmology....66 On the Question why there exists something rather than Nothing ....76 2. Structures in the universe and the structure of Modern cosmology...........83 Some generalities about generality....85 Emergent structures of Effective field theories .........109 Cosmological Structure formation ....136 Formation of Galaxies .161 3. Foundations of Cosmology: Gravity and the Quantum ............179 The observer strikes back..181 Testing inflamation ............206 Why boltzmann brains do not fluctuate into existence from the De sitter vacuum ......228 Holographic Inflation revised .............241 Progress and gravity : Overcoming division between general Relativity and Particle physics and between physics and hps ............263 4. Quantum foundations and Quantum gravity...........283 Is time`s Arrow perspectival?........285 Cosmological Ontology and epistemology....317 Quantum origin of Cosmological Structure and dynamical Reduction theories..........330 Towards a novel approach to semi-Classical Gravity....356 5. Methodilogical and Philosophical Issues....375 Limits of time in Cosmology.........375 Self-locating priors and cosmological Measures............396 On probability and Cosmology: Inference beyond data ? ............429 Testing e multiverse: Bayes, fine-tuning and typicality....447 A new perspective on Einstein`s Philosophy of Cosmology ...467 The nature of the Past Hypothesis ..........486 big and Small.........500