Timothy O'Connor

Gebundenes Buch

Theism and Ultimate Explanation

The Necessary Shape of Contingency

Beschreibung

Theism and Ultimate Explanation engages with the traditional metaphysician's quest for a true ultimate explanation of the most general features of the world we inhabit. The first part of the book develops an original view concerning the epistemology and metaphysics of modality, or truths concerning what is possible or necessary. This framework is then applied to a re-examination of the cosmological argument for theism. O'Connor defends a novel version of the Leibnizian cosmological argument from contingency for the existence of a transcendent necessary being as the source and basis for the ultimate explanation of contingent beings and their interconnected histories.

Autor

Timothy O'Connor is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has published widely in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Persons and Causes (2000), and the editor of Agents, Causes and Events (1995) and Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings (2003).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781405169691
• ISBN-10: 1405169699
• Artikelnr.: 23837385

Rezensionen

"This trim but highly technical volume is indisensable forscholars and graudate-level researchers in the field. SummingUp: Essential. Graduate students andresearchers/faculty." (Choice, 1 October2012)

"Despite these limitations, this book is worth reading. It willalert theologians to the philosophical strength of cosmologicalarguments and the superficial objections to them. It will alsointerest philosophers of religion and those working on modallogic." (The Journal of Religion, 2011)

"It will alert theologians to the philosophical strength ofcosmological arguments and the superficial objections to them. Itwill also interest philosophers of religion and those working onmodal logic." (Journal of Religion, 1 April 2011)

"O'Connor does not disappoint those who are used to thehigh levels of clarity, rigor, and originality that readers of hiswork on free will and emergence have come to expect fromhim." (Mind, July 2009)

"A breathtaking sweep from metaphysics through theology.This is a superb book in the philosophy of religion, the like ofwhose quality and originality is rare."
Alexander Pruss, Baylor University