God and necessity /
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 nec...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""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""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""