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God and Necessity

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
592 Seiten
Englisch
Oxford University Presserschienen am16.04.2015
Brian Leftow offers a theist theory of necessity and possibility, and a new sort of argument for God's existence. He argues that necessities of logic and mathematics are determined by God's nature, but that it is events in God's mind--His imagination and choice--that account for necessary truths about concrete creatures.mehr
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KlappentextBrian Leftow offers a theist theory of necessity and possibility, and a new sort of argument for God's existence. He argues that necessities of logic and mathematics are determined by God's nature, but that it is events in God's mind--His imagination and choice--that account for necessary truths about concrete creatures.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-19-873896-1
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2015
Erscheinungsdatum16.04.2015
Seiten592 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 154 mm, Höhe 233 mm, Dicke 35 mm
Gewicht877 g
Artikel-Nr.33674037

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction ; 1. Modal Basics ; 2. Some Solutions ; 3. Theist Solutions ; 4. The Ontology of Possibility ; 5. Modal Truthmakers ; 6. Modality and the Divine Nature ; 7. Deity as Essential ; 8. Against Deity Theories ; 9. The Role of Deity ; 10. The Biggest Bang ; 11. Divine Concepts ; 12. Concepts, Syntax, and Actualism ; 13. Modality: Basic Notions ; 14. The Genesis of Secular Modality ; 15. Modal Reality ; 16. Essences ; 17. Non-Secular Modalities ; 18. Theism and Modal Semantics ; 19. Freedom, Preference, and Cost ; 20. Explaining Modal Status ; 21. Explaining the Necessary ; 22. Against Theistic Platonism ; 23. Worlds and the Existence of God ; Bibliography ; Indexmehr

Autor

Brian Leftow has been the Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion in the University of Oxford since 2002, and a Fellow of Oriel College since 2003. Previously he taught at Fordham University (Bronx, NY). He is the author of Time and Eternity (Cornell University Press, 1991), Aquinas on Metaphysics (OUP, forthcoming) and numerous articles in philosophy of religion, medieval philosophy and metaphysics.