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- 9780199263356
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199263353
ISBN-13
9780199263356
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117103011
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
God and Necessity
Subject
Free Will & Determinism, General
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
35.4 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-464294
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
it provides a rigorous, rich, and detailed discussion of a problem that many (and not just analytic philosophers) will find puzzling.
Dewey Decimal
212.1
Table Of Content
Introduction1. Modal Basics2. Some Solutions3. Theist Solutions4. The Ontology of Possibility5. Modal Truthmakers6. Modality and the Divine Nature7. Deity as Essential8. Against Deity Theories9. The Role of Deity10. The Biggest Bang11. Divine Concepts12. Concepts, Syntax, and Actualism13. Modality: Basic Notions14. The Genesis of Secular Modality15. Modal Reality16. Essences17. Non-Secular Modalities18. Theism and Modal Semantics19. Freedom, Preference, and Cost20. Explaining Modal Status21. Explaining the Necessary22. Against Theistic Platonism23. Worlds and the Existence of GodBibliographyIndex
Synopsis
Brian Leftow offers a theory of the possible and the necessary in which God plays the chief role, and a new sort of argument for God's existence. It has become usual to say that a proposition is possible just in case it is true in some "possible world" (roughly, some complete history a universe might have) and necessary just if it is true in all. Thus much discussion of possibility and necessity since the 1960s has focused on the nature and existence (or not) of possible worlds. God and Necessity holds that there are no such things, nor any sort of abstract entity. It assigns the metaphysical 'work' such items usually do to God and events in God's mind, and reduces "broadly logical" modalities to causal modalities, replacing possible worlds in the semantics of modal logic with God and His mental events. Leftow argues that theists are committed to theist modal theories, and that the merits of a theist modal theory provide an argument for God's existence. Historically, almost all theist modal theories base all necessary truth on God's nature. Leftow disagrees: he argues that necessary truths about possible creatures and kinds of creatures are due ultimately to God's unconstrained imagination and choice. On his theory, it is in no sense part of the nature of God that normal zebras have stripes (if that is a necessary truth). Stripy zebras are simply things God thought up, and they have the nature they do simply because that is how God thought of them. Thus Leftow's essay in metaphysics takes a half-step toward Descartes' view of modal truth, and presents a compelling theist theory of necessity and possibility., 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., Brian Leftow offers a theory of the possible and the necessary in which God plays the chief role, and a new sort of argument for God's existence. It has become usual to say that a proposition is possible just in case it is true in some 'possible world' (roughly, some complete history a universe might have) and necessary just if it is true in all. Thus much discussion of possibility and necessity since the 1960s has focussed on the nature and existence (or not) of possible worlds. God and Necessity holds that there are no such things, nor any sort of abstract entity. It assigns the metaphysical 'work' such items usually do to God and events in God's mind, and reduces 'broadly logical' modalities to causal modalities, replacing possible worlds in the semantics of modal logic with God and His mental events. Leftow argues that theists are committed to theist modal theories, and that the merits of a theist modal theory provide an argument for God's existence. Historically, almost all theist modal theories base all necessary truth on God's nature. Leftow disagrees: he argues that necessary truths about possible creatures and kinds of creatures are due ultimately to God's unconstrained imagination and choice. On his theory, it is in no sense part of the nature of God that normal zebras have stripes (if that is a necessary truth). Stripy zebras are simply things God thought up, and they have the nature they do simply because that is how God thought of them. Thus Leftow's essay in metaphysics takes a half-step toward Descartes' view of modal truth, and presents a compelling theist theory of necessity and possibility.
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