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The rapid development of scientific cosmology in the last few decades is the product of experimental physics and astronomy. It suggests the need for a broader and more inclusive consideration in philosophy. The aim of philosophical cosmology is to take into account many of the suggestions made by the scientific cosmology and extend beyond it without becoming inconsistent with it. Physicists, astronomers, chemists and biologists have furnished a groundwork of observations resulting in theories and facts, but the philosophical cosmologist must find a broader conception in which these can be included as special cases.
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Feibleman, J.K. (1982). The Universe. In: Technology and Reality. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7455-5_5
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