God and necessity
By: Brian Leftow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 575
ISBN-13: 9780199263356
Subjects: Möglichkeit; Gudsbevis; Modalität; God; Ontological Proof; Gottesbeweis; Theism; Possibility; Religionsfilosofi; Necessity (Philosophy); Notwendigkeit
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 552-568) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modal basics; title: Some solutions; title: Theist solutions; title: The ontology of possibility; title: Modal truthmakers; title: Modality and the divine nature; title: Deity as essential; title: Against deity theories; title: The role of deity; title: The biggest bang; title: Divine concepts; title: Concepts, syntax, and actualism; title: Modality: basic notions; title: The genesis of secular modality; title: Modal reality; title: Essences; title: Non-secular modalities; title: Theism and modal semantics; title: Freedom, preference, and cost; title: Explaining modal status; title: Explaining the necessary; title: Against theistic platonism; title: Worlds and the existence of God.