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...

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1. VerfasserIn: Penner, Myron Arthur (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2014
In: International journal for philosophy of religion
Jahr: 2014, Band: 75, Heft: 1, Seiten: 13-25
weitere Schlagwörter: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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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1572-8684
Enthält:Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11153-013-9404-7