The Metaphysics of Theism and Modality by Davis, Richard Brian

The Metaphysics of Theism and Modality (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820445298)

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The Metaphysics of Theism and Modality by Davis, Richard Brian

The Metaphysics of Theism and Modality

$76.35
The Metaphysics of Theism and Modality by Davis, Richard Brian

The Metaphysics of Theism and Modality

$76.35
Format: Hardcover
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In this book, Richard Brian Davis explores various attempts to solve the Dependence Problem - the problem posed by the following question: How can necessary truths stand to God in a one-way relation of dependence when neither they nor God could have failed to exist? Critics charge that this problem is insoluble. Davis argues at length that the most powerful and promising contemporary solutions to this problem - those offered by Linda Zagzebski, Brian Leftow, Thomas V. Morris, and William Mann - are all fatally flawed. In making his case, Davis treats the reader to helpful and interesting discussions of counterpossibles, broadly logical necessity, identity statements, as well as the divine attributes of sovereignty, aseity, and simplicity. He concludes with what is perhaps the most forceful and sustained defense of the claim that necessary truths can stand to God in an asymmetrical relation of causal dependence.

Author: Richard Brian Davis
ISBN-10: 0820445290
ISBN-13: 9780820445298
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2001
Pages: 138
Format: Hardcover

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Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 6
By Richard Brian Davis
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The Author: Richard Brian Davis is Professor of Philosophy at Tyndale College (Toronto, Canada). Davis, a graduate of the University of Alberta, received his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto. From 1995 to 1998, he was the recipient of an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and he won the ACPA Young Scholars Award in 1997. He has published articles on metaphysics, ethics, and the philosophy of religion.

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