Incommensurability, incomparability, and rational world-choice
Klaas J. Kraay argues that the rational choice model for divine creation—according to which God chooses to actualize one world among possible alternatives based on its axiological properties—cannot succeed given failures of comparability across possible worlds. I argue that failure of comparability...
| Published in: | International journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2014
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 75, Issue: 1, Pages: 13-25 |
| Further subjects: | B
Best-world scenario
B Deliberative rational choice B Incomparability B Necessitarianism B Incommensurability B Contingentism B Divine Creation B Best possible world B No-best-world scenario |
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| Summary: | Klaas J. Kraay argues that the rational choice model for divine creation—according to which God chooses to actualize one world among possible alternatives based on its axiological properties—cannot succeed given failures of comparability across possible worlds. I argue that failure of comparability across worlds would not undermine the rationality of choosing one world to create among possible alternatives. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-013-9404-7 |