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Theism and Ultimate Explanation The Necessary Shape of Contingency

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

31.01.2008

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

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192

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23,5/15,7/1,5 cm

Gewicht

453 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-6969-1

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

31.01.2008

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

192

Maße (L/B/H)

23,5/15,7/1,5 cm

Gewicht

453 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-6969-1

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  • Produktbild: Theism and Ultimate Explanation
  • Preface ix

    Part I The Explanatory Role of Necessity 1

    1. Modality and Explanation 3

    Relative and Absolute Necessity 3

    Scientifi cally Established Necessities 5

    An Epistemological Worry about Modality: Causal Contact with Modal Facts 7

    Modal Nihilism 10

    Modal Reductionism and Defl ationism 15

    Modal Anti-Realism and Quasi-Realism 27

    Conclusion 30

    2. Modal Knowledge 32

    Conceivability As Our Guide? 32

    Modality a Matter of Principle? 36

    The Theoretical Roles of Modal Claims: Towards a Modal Epistemology 41

    The Spheres of Possibility 60

    Part II The Necessary Shape of Contingency 63

    3. Ultimate Explanation and Necessary Being: The Existence Stage of the Cosmological Argument 65

    Necessary Being 68

    Two Objections to the Traditional Answer 73

    Necessary Being As the Explanatory Ground of Contingency? 79

    4. The Identifi cation Stage 86

    From Necessary Being to God, I: Transcendent, Not Immanent 86

    Two Models of Transcendent Necessary Being: Logos and Chaos 93

    Varieties of Chaos 93

    Interlude: The Fine-Tuning Argument 97

    From Necessary Being to God, II: Logos, Not Random Chaos 109

    5. The Scope of Contingency 111

    How Many Universes Would Perfection Realize? 111

    Perfection and Freedom 121

    Some Applications of the Many-Universe-Creation Hypothesis 122

    Necessary Being and the Scope of Possibility 125

    Necessary Being and the Many Necessary Truths 128

    6. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Anselm? 130

    The Unity of the Divine Nature and Its Consequences 132

    Natural Theology in the Understanding of Revealed Theology 140

    Coda 143

    Notes 145

    Bibliography 162

    Index 172