Research Catalog

Title

God, truth, and other enigmas / edited by Miroslaw Szatkowski.

Publication

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Szatkowski, Mirosław
• Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii (Polska Akademia Nauk), organizer.
• International God Oriented Conference (2nd : 2013 : Warsaw, Poland), creator.

Description

xxix, 269 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"The book God, Truth, and other Enigmas is a collection of eighteen essays that fall under four headings: (God's) Existence/Non-Existence, Omniscience, Truth, and Metaphysical Enigmas. The essays vary widely in topic and tone. They provide the reader with an overview of contemporary philosophical approaches to the subjects that are indicated in the title of the book"--

Series Statement

Philosophische Analyse ; Band 65 = Philosophical analysis ; volume 65

Uniform Title

Philosophische Analyse ; v. 65.

Subject

• God > Proof, Ontological > Congresses
• Ontology > Congresses
• Omniscience (Theory of knowledge) > Congresses
• Truth > Congresses
• Metaphysics > Congresses

Note

• Proceedings of 2nd International God Oriented Conference held 17-19 September, 2013 in Warsaw, organized by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A guide to the book : God, truth, and other enigmas / Miroslaw Szatkowski -- Logical necessity, conceptual necessity, and the ontological argument / C. Anthony Anderson -- Problem of the origins of ontotheology / Seweryn Blandzi -- On the anti-ontological doom argument / Robert E. Maydole -- Nothing is impossible / Peter van Inwagen -- God and good : does God's existence imply that anything is good / Jan Woleński -- Gaps, gluts and God / Stamatios Gerogiorgakis -- Fitch's paradox and the existence of an omniscient being / Jason Megill -- Vagueness and omniscience / Elisa Paganini -- God's omniscience and logical virtue / Miroslaw Szatkowski -- Logic and truth in religious belief / Srećko Kovac̆ -- Absolute truth and mathematics / Anna Lemańska -- The divine belief theory of truth : might it work? / Alexander Pruss -- Makers and models : two approaches to truth, and their merger / Peter Simons -- Agnosticism about material composition / Christopher Daly and David Liggins -- Existential dependence and other formal relations / Christian Kanzian -- Wittgenstein on faith and reason : the influence of Newman / Duncan H. Pritchard -- Necessity, worlds, and God / Scott A. Shalkowski -- The explanatory power of topology in the philosophy of God / Bartlomiej Skowron.

ISBN

• 9783110419955 (hd.bd.)
• 3110419955 (hd.bd.)
• 9783110418934 (PDF : online) (canceled/invalid)
• 9783110418996 (epub) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 904801073
• SCSB-11921358

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library