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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797380703321

Titolo

God, truth, and other enigmas / / edited by Miroslaw Szatkowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Munich, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-041893-2

3-11-041899-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

Philosophische Analyse, , 2198-2066 ; ; Band  65 = Philosophical Analysis ; ; Volume 5

Disciplina

100

Soggetti

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Guide to the Book: God, Truth, and other Enigmas -- Logical Necessity, Conceptual Necessity, and the Ontological Argument -- Problem of the Origins of Ontotheology -- On the Anti-Ontological Doom Argument -- Nothing Is Impossible -- God and Good: Does God’s Existence Imply that Anything is Good -- Gaps, Gluts and God -- Fitch’s Paradox and the Existence of an Omniscient Being -- Vagueness and Omniscience -- God’s Omniscience and Logical Virtue -- Logic and Truth in Religious Belief -- Absolute Truth and Mathematics -- The Divine Belief Theory of Truth: Might It Work? -- Makers and Models: Two Approaches to Truth, and their Merger -- Agnosticism about Material Composition -- Existential Dependence and other Formal Relations -- Wittgenstein on Faith and Reason: The Influence of Newman -- Necessity, Worlds, and God -- The Explanatory Power of Topology in the Philosophy of God -- Authors of Contributed Papers -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.