Logical Necessity, Conceptual Necessity, and the Ontological Argument

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements XI
4. A Guide to the Book: God, Truth, and other Enigmas XIII
5. Part I: ( God’s) Existence/Non-Existence
6. Logical Necessity, Conceptual Necessity, and the Ontological Argument 3
7. Problem of the Origins of Ontotheology 15
8. On the Anti-Ontological Doom Argument 29
9. Nothing Is Impossible 33
10. God and Good: Does God’s Existence Imply that Anything is Good 59
11. Part II: Omniscience
12. Gaps, Gluts and God 71
13. Fitch’s Paradox and the Existence of an Omniscient Being 77
14. Vagueness and Omniscience 89
15. God’s Omniscience and Logical Virtue 97
16. Part III: Truth
17. Logic and Truth in Religious Belief 119
18. Absolute Truth and Mathematics 133
19. The Divine Belief Theory of Truth: Might It Work? 141
20. Makers and Models: Two Approaches to Truth, and their Merger 153
21. Part IV: Metaphysical Enigmas
22. Agnosticism about Material Composition 169
23. Existential Dependence and other Formal Relations 183
24. Wittgenstein on Faith and Reason: The Influence of Newman 197
25. Necessity, Worlds, and God 217
26. The Explanatory Power of Topology in the Philosophy of God 241
27. Authors of Contributed Papers 255
28. Author Index 261
29. Subject Index 265