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Necessary Existence
Author: Alexander R. Pruss
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2018
Necessary Existence breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defence of the hypothesis that there is a necessarily existing being capable of providing an ultimate foundation for the existence of all things.
Haecceity
Author: G.S. Rosenkrantz
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2013-03-09
Many contemporary philosophers are interested in the scotistic notion of haecceity or `thisness' because it is relevant to important problems concerning identity and individuation, reference, modality, and propositional attitudes. Haecceity is the only book-length work devoted to this topic. The author develops a novel defense of Platonism, arguing, first, that abstracta - nonqualitative haecceities - are needed to explain concreta's being diverse at a time; and second, that unexemplified haecceities are then required to accommodate the full range of cases in which there are possible worlds containing individuals not present in the actual world. In the cognitive area, an original epistemic argument is presented which implies that certain haecceities can be grasped by a person: his own, those of certain of his mental states, and those of various abstracta, but not those of external things. It is argued that in consequence there is a clear sense in which one is directly acquainted with the former entities, but not with external things.
Beyond the Control of God?
Views of Keith Yandell, Paul M. Gould and Richard Brian Davis, Greg Welty, William Lane Craig, Scott A. Shalkowski, Graham Oppy.