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God, Truth, and other Enigmas.
Title:
God, Truth, and other Enigmas.
Author:
Szatkowski, Miroslaw.
ISBN:
9783110418934
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (300 pages)
Series:
Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis ; v.65

Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Guide to the Book: God, Truth, and other Enigmas -- Part I (God's) Existence/Non-Existence -- Logical Necessity, Conceptual Necessity, and the Ontological Argument -- 1 What is Logical Necessity (Logical Modality)? -- 2 Conceptual Modality -- 3 Terse Formalization of a Hartshornian Modal Ontological Argument -- 4 A "Fitchy" Argument for Premise (2) -- 5 The Crucial Premise -- Problem of the Origins of Ontotheology -- 1 Towards the Theologization of Being -- 2 "Craftsman" or "Creator"? -- 3 The Unnamed, and yet Named "the Being One": the Premises of Ontotheology -- 4 God as Esse Absolutum -- On the Anti-Ontological Doom Argument -- Nothing Is Impossible -- 1 Preliminary Matters -- 1.1 A Miscellany of Terms, Concepts, Definitions, and Assumptions -- 1.2 Kinds -- 1.3 Explanation -- 1.4 Three Principles -- 1.5 A Premise about Kinds -- 2 The Arguments -- 2.1 The Arguments -- 2.2 A Possible Objection to the Arguments -- 3 "The Mystery of Existence" -- God and Good: Does God's Existence Imply that Anything is Good -- Part II Omniscience -- Gaps, Gluts and God -- 1 Gaps and Gluts -- 2 Milne's Paradox -- 3 Strengthening the Milne Sentence -- 4 Conclusion -- Fitch's Paradox and the Existence of an Omniscient Being -- 1 The Knowability Principle and Fitch's Paradox -- 2 An Argument for an Omniscient Being -- 3 How Plausible is the Knowability Principle? -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- Vagueness and Omniscience -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Cooperation by an Omniscient Being: First Proposal -- 3 Cooperation by an Omniscient Being: Objection to the First Proposal -- 4 Cooperation by an Omniscient Being: Second Proposal -- 5 Cooperation by an Omniscient Being: Objection to the Second Proposal -- 6 Some Conclusive Remarks -- God's Omniscience and Logical Virtue -- 1 Introduction.

2 Cantor's Argument and the Complete Knowledge of God -- 3 The Liar and the Sound Knowledge of God -- 4 McTaggart's Paradox, and Various Semantical Approaches to Time -- 5 Anderson-type Semantics Taking into Account the Time and the Knowledge of Truths -- 6 Conclusion -- Part III Truth -- Logic and Truth in Religious Belief -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Logic and Religious Belief -- 3 Faith Pragmatics and Truth -- 4 Appearance and Truth in Religious Belief (Semantics) -- 4.1 Logic QB Modified -- 4.2 Formal Analysis of John 3 -- Absolute Truth and Mathematics -- The Divine Belief Theory of Truth: Might It Work? -- 1 The Theory -- 2 Statement and Some Merits -- 2.1 Beliefs by a Perfect Beings -- 2.2 Sentential Truth -- 2.3 Some Merits -- 3 Objections -- 3.1 The Euthyphro Objection -- 3.2 Knowledge -- 3.3 Epistemological Circularity -- 3.4 Atheists and Truth -- 3.5 The Liar Paradox -- 3.6 Similarity to Occasionalism -- 4 Conclusions -- Makers and Models: Two Approaches to Truth, and their Merger -- 1 Introduction: Tarski and Nominalism -- 2 Truth, Consequence, and Models -- 3 Makers -- 4 Models -- 5 Multitudes -- 6 Models from Multitudes -- 7 Consequences for Nominalists -- 8 Open Questions and Conclusion -- Part IV Metaphysical Enigmas -- Agnosticism about Material Composition -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Agnosticism about Material Composition -- 3 Conceptual Analysis -- 4 Common Sense -- 5 Science -- 6 Simplicity -- 7 Philosophical Argument -- 8 Reflections and Recriminations -- Existential Dependence and other Formal Relations -- 1 Formal Relations -- 2 Ontological Dependence -- 3 Existential Dependence -- 4 Existential Dependence and the Three-Categorial Ontology -- 5 Formal Relations and Their Possible Function in Philosophical Theology -- Wittgenstein on Faith and Reason: The Influence of Newman -- 1 Introductory Remarks.

2 Wittgenstein on the Structure of Reasons -- 3 Newman on Faith and Reason -- 4 On Certainty -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Necessity, Worlds, and God -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Most Common Strategy -- 3 Necessity and Worlds -- 4 Necessity and God -- 5 Be Careful What You Wish For -- 6 How Not to Argue for the Plurality -- 7 Rods for Their Own Backs -- 8 God, Necessity, and Limits -- 9 Conclusion -- The Explanatory Power of Topology in the Philosophy of God -- 1 Goal -- 2 Mathematical Theology -- 3 Mathematica Theologiae Ancilla -- 4 Topology - Basic Ideas and Concepts -- 5 Topological Explanations in the Philosophy of God -- 5.1 God's Suffering vs. God's Infinite Power. Is God a Topological Space? -- 5.2 God as a Closure of the World -- 5.3 God-Topology: Connected and not Metrizable? -- 5.4 Topological Analysis of Unity of God -- 6 The Explanatory Power and Limits of Topological Explanations -- Authors of Contributed Papers -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
The book God, Truth, and other Enigmas is a collection of eighteen essays that fall under four headings: (God's) Existence/Non-Existence, Omniscience, Truth, and Metaphysical Enigmas. The essays vary widely in topic and tone. They provide the reader with an overview of contemporary philosophical approaches to the subjects that are indicated in the title of the book.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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