God and Necessity
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2012
588 pages
978-0-19-165487-9 (ISBN)
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.
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Content
- 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
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