Contents |
Modal basics -- Some solutions -- Theist solutions -- The ontology of possibility -- Modal truthmakers -- Modality and the divine nature -- Deity as essential -- Against deity theories -- The role of deity -- The biggest bang -- Divine concepts -- Concepts, syntax, and actualism -- Modality: basic notions -- The genesis of secular modality -- Modal reality -- Essences -- Non-secular modalities -- Theism and modal semantics -- Freedom, preference, and cost -- Explaining modal status -- Explaining the necessary -- Against theistic platonism -- Worlds and the existence of God. |
Summary |
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. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [552]-568) and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2012464294 |
ISBN | 9780199263356 (hbk.) |
ISBN | 0199263353 (hbk.) |