The Dispositionalist Deity: How God Creates Laws and Why Theists Should Care
How does God govern the world? For many theists “laws of nature” play a vital role. But what are these laws, metaphysically speaking? I shall argue that laws of nature are not external to the objects they govern, but instead should be thought of as reducible to internal features of properties. Recen...
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Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities$s2024-
[2015]
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Zygon
Year: 2015, Volume: 50, Issue: 1, Pages: 113-137 |
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B laws of nature B Occasionalism B Ontology B philosophy of science B Dispositions B Powers B Metaphysics B God B Teleology |
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