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41. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 13 > Issue: 2
Craig J. Hazen Editor’s Introduction
... philosophical question about the nature of abstract objects. If this is new ...
42. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 23 > Issue: 1
Ross D. Inman Editor’s Introduction
..., a Berkeleyan idealist perspective on abstract objects, an exchange on the perils ...
43. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 16 > Issue: 2
Craig Hazen Editor’s Introduction
... members weighing in on the debate over God and abstract objects. Then it ...
44. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 15 > Issue: 2
Craig J. Hazen Editor’s Introduction
... emerging debate over abstract objects. Here is a quick word to those ...
45. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 15 > Issue: 2
Angus Menuge Guest Editor’s Introduction
... from reason, consciousness and abstract objects. 2. Richard ... reason. (12) The nature of truth. (13) The status of abstract ... objects. (14) Existential angst. The promise of the ramified ...
46. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 18 > Issue: 1
William Lane Craig Necessary Beings: An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations between Them
... abstract objects like the nature of conjunction and the nature of ... abstract objects in this lightweight sense seems to me to pose no challenge at ...
47. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 25 > Issue: 2
Andrew Hollingsworth Orcid-ID Classical Theism: New Essays on the Metaphysics of God, ed. Jonathan Fuqua and Robert C. Koons
... thinkers. Craig authored two books, God and Abstract Objects and God over ... All, wherein he considers the challenge that abstract objects pose for God ...
48. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 25 > Issue: 2
Drew Smith The Problem of Necessitism
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In his 2013 monograph Modal Logic as Metaphysics, Timothy Williamson develops and defends a view he terms necessitism. According to necessitism, everything that exists does so necessarily (alternatively, necessarily everything is necessarily something). I demonstrate that necessitism is incompatible with the conjunction of two doctrines rooted in the broadly Nicene tradition: God’s metaphysical sovereignty and freedom. First, I exposit and formalize the two doctrines in question. Next, I expound Williamson’s theory of necessitism. Third, I demonstrate the formal incompatibility of the conjunction of the two doctrines with necessitism. Finally, I conclude with reflections on the implications of this incompatibility.
...—irrespective of kind. 9 Hence, even abstract objects—such as numbers and ... and abstract objects. 11. Ibid., 32 ... Abstract Objects: The Coherence of Theism: Aseity (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017 ...
49. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 17 > Issue: 2
Peter van Inwagen A Reply to Craig
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In “God and Other Uncreated Things,” I defended the position that at least some properties (attributes, qualities, and so forth) are uncreated. I argued that this thesis does not contradict the creedal statement that God is the creator of all things, visible and invisible, because that statement presupposes a domain of quantification that does not include (the things that I call) properties. William Lane Craig has contended that this defense of the consistency of my position with the Nicene Creed fails, owing to the fact that there are clear patristic statements to the effect that the domain of quantification presupposed in the Nicene Creed must be understood as absolutely unrestricted. In this paper, I grant his premise but present reasons for doubting whether his conclusion—that the proposition that there are uncreated properties contradicts the Nicene Creed—follows from it.
... to see why Craig found my views about abstract objects so ... that abstract objects—numbers, propositions, attributes ...
50. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 16 > Issue: 1
J. Caleb Clanton A (Partial) Peircean Defense of the Cosmological Argument: A Response to Rowe
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William Rowe’s criticism of the cosmological argument takes aim at the argument’s reliance on the principle of sufficient reason. In this short paper, I outline out how C. S. Peirce’s insights regarding abductive reasoning might be useful in defending the cosmological argument against Rowe’s worry concerning the principle of sufficient reason and the role it plays in the argument.
... discussion in this journal concerning the ontology of abstract objects ... Abstract Objects: A Prolegomenon,” Philosophia Christi 13 (2011): 255–74; Keith Yandell ... Perspective on God and Abstract Objects,” Philosophia Christi 13 (2011 ...
51. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 3 > Issue: 1
J. P. Moreland Body, Soul & Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate
... entities, e.g., various abstract objects, spirits. Thus, we cannot adequately ...
52. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Howard Robinson Universals
...,” “Traditional Realism: Properties as Abstract Objects,” “Traditional Realism ...
53. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 6 > Issue: 1
Randal Rauser A Sensible Metaphysical Realism
... that conceptual schemes are abstract objects, the regress then falls to the ...
54. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 13 > Issue: 1
James Anderson No Dilemma for the Proponent of the Transcendental Argument: A Response to David Reiter
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David Reiter has recently argued that presuppositionalist apologists who champion the transcendental argument for God’s existence (TAG) face a dilemma: depending on what conclusion the argument is supposed to establish, either TAG is inadequate to deliver that conclusion or else TAG is superfluous (thus bringing into question claims about its importance and distinctiveness as a theistic argument). By way of reply, I contend that several plausible lines of response are available to the proponent of TAG in the face of this purported dilemma. I hope thereby to advance scholarly discussion of TAG by clarifying its structure, content, and goal.
... existent abstract objects (e.g., numbers, propositions, and ... , “Theistic Conceptual Realism: The Case for Interpreting Abstract ... Objects as Divine Ideas” (DPhil, Oxford University, 2006). 26 ...
55. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 24 > Issue: 2
Walter J. Schultz Orcid-ID An Augustinian–Edwardsian Metaphysics of Possibility for the Barcan Formula
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The Barcan formula is a theorem of quantified modal logic. Its most straightforward interpretation appears to commit one to “possibilism,” the view that merely possible things exist. Alternative systems of logic revise the formal semantics to preclude the theorem and its consequences. The crux, however, is the modal metaphysics presupposed by the formal semantics. This paper presents an alternative metaphysics of possibility that follows Augustine’s suggestion that God’s plan is only one of a range of alternative histories for a creation. The metaphysics is a version of “trace actualism”—neither pure possibilism nor pure actualism.
... a creation or a platonic realm of abstract objects. Rather, they are the ... there is a platonic realm of abstract objects existing ...
56. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 21 > Issue: 1
Logan Paul Gage Five Proofs of the Existence of God
... abstract objects to a divine mind in which they must exist. Chapter 4 ...
57. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 18 > Issue: 1
Elijah Hess The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence: A Time-Ordering Account
... abstract objects in this lightweight sense seems to me to pose no challenge at ...
58. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 22 > Issue: 2
James C. McGlothlin Walter J. Schultz, Jonathan Edwards’ Concerning the End for which God Created the World: Exposition, Analysis, and Philosophical Implications
... aseity and divine action in relation to abstract objects. Regardless of his or ...
59. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 13 > Issue: 1
Paul Gould Perspectives on the Doctrine of God: Four Views
..., and God’s relationship to necessary truths and abstract objects (if there be ...
60. Philosophia Christi: Volume > 13 > Issue: 1
Matthew Flannagan The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails
..., and God’s relationship to necessary truths and abstract objects (if there be ...