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Ontology of Theistic Beliefs / ed. by Mirosław Szatkowski.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis ; 74Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (XXII, 243 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110565799
  • 9783110565898
  • 9783110566512
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 211.301 23
LOC classification:
  • BL200 .O58 2018eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Ontology of Theistic Beliefs: A Short Orientation -- Agnosticism and the Balance of Evidence -- Theism and the Ontological Ground of Moral Realism -- Polygeny, Pleiotropy, and Two Kinds of Concurrentist Ontology -- “Bottom-up” versus “top-down” -- Cognitive Bias, the Axiological Question and the Epistemic Probability of Theistic Belief -- On Computable Metaphysics: On the Uses and Limitations of Computational Metaphysics -- What Evil Must Be in Order to Exist -- Normative Rules for Indeterminacy -- The Openness of God: Eternity and Free Will -- The Recovery of St. Thomas Aquinas. Part I: The Doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas and its Non-Analytical Versions -- Does God Exist Because He Ought To Exist? -- God’s Being and Ours -- Authors of Contributed Papers -- Abstracts -- Person Index -- Subject Index
Summary: This volume aims to apply ontological theories and arguments to theistic beliefs and theistic world views. After an introduction that traces out the complexity of the field by categorizing the multifaceted definitions of ontology and (theistic) believing, thirteen articles discuss specific aspects of the two terms as well as their interaction. With contributions by Chris Daly, Gabriele De Anna, Michał Głowala, Christian Kanzian, Daniel Linford, Jason Megill, Uwe Meixner, Elisa Paganini, Eleonore Stump, Mirosław Szatkowski, William F. Vallicella and Peter van Inwagen.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Ontology of Theistic Beliefs: A Short Orientation -- Agnosticism and the Balance of Evidence -- Theism and the Ontological Ground of Moral Realism -- Polygeny, Pleiotropy, and Two Kinds of Concurrentist Ontology -- “Bottom-up” versus “top-down” -- Cognitive Bias, the Axiological Question and the Epistemic Probability of Theistic Belief -- On Computable Metaphysics: On the Uses and Limitations of Computational Metaphysics -- What Evil Must Be in Order to Exist -- Normative Rules for Indeterminacy -- The Openness of God: Eternity and Free Will -- The Recovery of St. Thomas Aquinas. Part I: The Doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas and its Non-Analytical Versions -- Does God Exist Because He Ought To Exist? -- God’s Being and Ours -- Authors of Contributed Papers -- Abstracts -- Person Index -- Subject Index

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This volume aims to apply ontological theories and arguments to theistic beliefs and theistic world views. After an introduction that traces out the complexity of the field by categorizing the multifaceted definitions of ontology and (theistic) believing, thirteen articles discuss specific aspects of the two terms as well as their interaction. With contributions by Chris Daly, Gabriele De Anna, Michał Głowala, Christian Kanzian, Daniel Linford, Jason Megill, Uwe Meixner, Elisa Paganini, Eleonore Stump, Mirosław Szatkowski, William F. Vallicella and Peter van Inwagen.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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