Possibility Necessity And Existence
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Author |
: Timothy O'Connor |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2012-02-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781444350883 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1444350889 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theism and Ultimate Explanation by : Timothy O'Connor
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 inhabit Develops an original view concerning the epistemology and metaphysics of modality, or truths concerning what is possible or necessary Applies this framework to a re-examination of the cosmological argument for theism Defends a novel version of the Leibnizian cosmological argument
Author |
: Nino Langiulli |
Publisher |
: Temple University Press |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 2010-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439904084 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439904081 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Possibility Necessity and Existence by : Nino Langiulli
In this systematic historical analysis, Nino Langiulli focuses on a key philosophical issue, possibility, as it is refracted through the thought of the Italian philosopher Nicola Abbagnano. Langiulli examines Abbagnano's attempt to raise possibility to a level of prime importance and investigates his understanding of existence. In so doing, the author offers a sustained exposition of and argument with the account of possibility in the major thinkers of the Western tradition—Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Kierkegaard. He also makes pertinent comments on such philosophers as Diodorus Cronus, William of Ockham, Spinoza, Hobbes, and Hegel, as well as such logicians as DeMorgan and Boole. Nicola Abbagnano, who died in 1990, recently came to the attention of the general public as an influential teacher of author Umberto Eco. Creator of a dictionary of philosophy and author of a multiple-volume history of Western philosophy, Abbagnano was the only philosopher, according to Langiulli, to argue that "to be is to be possible." Even though the concept of probability and the discipline of statistics are grounded in the concept of possibility, philosophers throughout history have grappled with the problem of defining it. Possibility has been viewed by some as an empty concept, devoid of reality, and by others as reducible to actuality or necessity—concepts which are opposite to it. Langiulli analyzes and debates Abbagnano's treatment of necessity as secondary to possibility, and he addresses the philosopher's conversation with his predecessors as well as his European and American contemporaries. In the series Themes in the History of Philosophy, edited by Edith Wyschogrod.
Author |
: Ali Rabbani Gulpaygani |
Publisher |
: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2017-05-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1546921664 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781546921660 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Discursive Theology by : Ali Rabbani Gulpaygani
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Author |
: Adriane Rini |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 365 |
Release |
: 2016-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107077881 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107077885 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap by : Adriane Rini
Introduces readers to the history of necessity and possibility, two modal concepts which play a key role in philosophy.
Author |
: Michael V. Griffin |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 209 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521117081 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521117089 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leibniz, God and Necessity by : Michael V. Griffin
This book presents a necessitarian interpretation of Leibniz which grounds modal concepts in theology.
Author |
: Immanuel Kant |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 1994-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0803277776 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780803277779 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Der Einzig M”gliche Beweisgrund by : Immanuel Kant
The search for God is dictated not from without but from a profound sense of one's own moral being and worthiness to be happy. The core of Immanuel Kant's argument remains relevant to the experience of ordinary men and women. He wished to strengthen, not undermine, belief in God and in the spiritual nature of humankind. This 1763 essay is imporrtant in understanding the development of Kant's thought. It exposed the flaw in the Cartesian argument that the existence of a perfect being could be deduced from an idea or concept of such. Similarly, Kant saw the problem inherent in the Leibnizian view of a philosophical system modeled on mathematics: a philosopher who, like a mathematician, began with an arbitrary definition remained trapped in a circle of words. In The One Possible Basis for a Demonstration of the Existence of God, Kant diverged from the familiar forms of ontological argument. The result was a brilliant approach to divine being that anticipated his mature Critique of Pure Reason. With this Bison Book edition, The One Possible Basis appears in paperback for the first time. Gordon Treash's English translation, the only modern one, faces pages containing the original German. Treash, who is a professor of philosophy at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, edited, with Paul A. Bogaard, Metaphysics as Foundation: Essays in Honor of Ivor Leclerc. Also available as a Bison Book is Kant's last major essay, The Conflict of the Faculties (1992).
Author |
: Brian Leftow |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 588 |
Release |
: 2012-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199263356 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199263353 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis God and Necessity by : Brian Leftow
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.
Author |
: Kurt Mosser |
Publisher |
: CUA Press |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813215327 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813215323 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Necessity and Possibility by : Kurt Mosser
Kurt Mosser argues that reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as an argument for such a logic of experience makes more defensible many of Kant's most controversial claims, and makes more accessible Kant's notoriously difficult text.
Author |
: Michael Tooley |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 428 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 081533382X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780815333821 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Necessity and Possibility by : Michael Tooley
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: Timothy Williamson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 481 |
Release |
: 2013-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199552078 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019955207X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modal Logic as Metaphysics by : Timothy Williamson
Timothy Williamson gives an original and provocative treatment of deep metaphysical questions about existence, contingency, and change, using the latest resources of quantified modal logic. Contrary to the widespread assumption that logic and metaphysics are disjoint, he argues that modal logic provides a structural core for metaphysics.