Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency
分類: 图书,进口原版,Nonfiction(非虚构类),Philosophy(哲学),Metaphysics,
品牌: Timothy O'Connor
基本信息出版社:Wiley-Blackwell; 1 (2012年2月21日)平装:192页正文语种:英语ISBN:1444350889条形码:9781444350883商品尺寸:15.4 x 1 x 23 cm商品重量:245 gASIN:1444350889商品描述内容简介An expansive, yet succinct, analysis of the Philosophy of Religion – from metaphysics through theology. Organized into two sections, the text first examines truths concerning what is possible and what is necessary. These chapters lay the foundation for the book’s second part – the search for a metaphysical framework that permits the possibility of an ultimate explanation that is correct and complete.
A cutting-edge scholarly work which engages with the traditional metaphysician’s quest for a true ultimate explanation of the most general features of the world we inhabitDevelops an original view concerning the epistemology and metaphysics of modality, or truths concerning what is possible or necessaryApplies this framework to a re-examination of the cosmological argument for theismDefends a novel version of the Leibnizian cosmological argument作者简介Timothy O'Connoris Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington. He has published widely in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, and philosophy of religion. He is the author ofPersons and Causes(2000) and the editor ofAgents, Causes, and Events: Essays on Indeterminism and Free Will(1995),Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings(2003),Downward Causation And The Neurobiology Of Free Will(2009),Emergence in Science and Philosophy(2010) andA Companion to the Philosophy of Action(2010).