Unrestricted Quantification and Natural Theology: Is "the World" on the Index?
The first section of this paper introduces talk about absolutely everything - the world as a totality - as an integral element in the project of natural theology, as it has been presented by Fergus Kerr and Denys Turner respectively. The following section presents talk about the world as a totality...
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Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2010]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 89-110 |
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Summary: | The first section of this paper introduces talk about absolutely everything - the world as a totality - as an integral element in the project of natural theology, as it has been presented by Fergus Kerr and Denys Turner respectively. The following section presents talk about the world as a totality of facts as a theme in philosophical logic and outlines a problem it has given rise to there. After confronting the solution originally suggested by Bertrand Russell and defended by David Armstrong, the paper points to key elements of the solution presented by Wittgenstein in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. I show how Wittgensteins answer to the question of unrestricted quantification draws on his notion of showing and the inexpressible. Against this background, the concluding section draws attention to an important difference in ambition between Kerrs and Turners description of the prospects for natural theology. |
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Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v2i2.369 |