{"product_id":"after-nothing-a-transcendental-inquiry-into-the-ground-of-reality-hardcover","title":"After Nothing: A Transcendental Inquiry into the Ground of Reality - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDon Howard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy is there something rather than nothing?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost answers to this question either speculate about what lies beyond experience or retreat into silence. After Nothingdoes neither.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning from what is simply here - a world that is structured, conscious, normative, and free - Don Howard reasons backward by strict transcendental argument to what the ground of reality must be like in order for such a world to exist. Not what it might be. Not what we might prefer it to be. What it must be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a set of derived constraints on the ground of reality - precise, cumulative, and progressively tightened across fifteen chapters. These constraints are tested against the features of experience that resist easy explanation: consciousness, freedom, evil, suffering, love, and death. Each test sharpens the account and requires that it hold under pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges is not a familiar conclusion. The categories we have inherited - from science, theology, and philosophy - prove insufficient to what the argument establishes. The deepest reason may not lie in a failure of thought, but in a structural limit of finite description itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter Nothing is a work of serious philosophical argument. The opening chapters are demanding; what follows, while still rigorous, becomes more accessible as the argument unfolds. Readers who follow the full trajectory will arrive not at a final answer, but at something more precisely located: a carefully earned account of what reality must allow - and the point at which explanation reaches its limit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecond volume in The Origins of Existence Trilogy. It can be read independently, though the full arc is cumulative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48261414355165,"sku":"9798994251652","price":51.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/rvOm28WMrL9798994251652.webp?v=1785076735","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/after-nothing-a-transcendental-inquiry-into-the-ground-of-reality-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}