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Theism and Ultimate Explanation The Necessary Shape of Contingency

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

21.02.2012

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John Wiley & Sons

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192

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22,6/15,4/0,9 cm

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245 g

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1. Auflage

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Englisch

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978-1-4443-5088-3

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"This trim but highly technical volume is indisensable for scholars and graudate-level researchers in the field. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students and researchers/faculty." ( Choice , 1 October 2012)

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

21.02.2012

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

192

Maße (L/B/H)

22,6/15,4/0,9 cm

Gewicht

245 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4443-5088-3

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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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
     
    Scientifically 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 Identification 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