Preface ........................................................ ix
1 Ultimate Questions ........................................... 1
2 Ultimate Answers ............................................ 17
3 Optimalism and Its Turn to Axiology ......................... 33
4 Intelligence and Rationality as Pivots for Optimality:
The Idea of Noophelia ....................................... 55
5 Abandoning Efficient Causality for Axiotropism .............. 69
6 Meeting Objections to Optimalism ............................ 83
7 On the unprovability of the World ........................... 95
8 Axiogenesis and Intelligent Design ......................... 125
9 Intelligence in an Evolutionary Perspective ................ 143
10 Is Noophelic Axiogenesis Unscientific? ..................... 153
11 Leibnizian Physics as a Case Study ......................... 165
12 Gödel: Noophelia in the Twentieth Century .................. 189
Bibliography .................................................. 211
Name Index .................................................... 221
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