Divine Simplicity and Modal Collapse: A Persistent Problem [PDF]
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2022 In recent years the doctrine of divine simplicity has become a topic of interest in the philosophical theological community. In particular, the modal collapse argument against divine simplicity has garnered various responses from proponents of divine simplicity. Some even claiming that the modal collapse argument is invalid.
Ryan Mullins, Shannon Byrd
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The simplicity of divine ideas: theistic conceptual realism and the doctrine of divine simplicity [PDF]
Religious Studies, 2019 AbstractThere has been little discussion of the compatibility of Theistic Conceptual Realism (TCR) with the doctrine of divine simplicity (DDS). On the one hand, if a plurality of universals is necessary to explain the character of particular things, there is reason to think this commits the proponent of TCR to the existence of a plurality of divine ...
Panchuk, Michelle
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Still Against Divine Truthmaker Simplicity [PDF]
, 2021 In a 2014 paper in this journal, I put forward two objections to a version of divine simplicity I call ‘Divine Truthmaker Simplicity’. James Beebe and Timothy Pawl have come to Divine Truthmaker Simplicity’s defense. In this paper, I respond to Beebe and
Saenz, Noël Blas
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Thomistic divine simplicity and its analytic detractors : can one affirm divine aseity and goodness without simplicity? [PDF]
, 2022 I evaluate three of the most widespread analytic objections to the doctrine of divine simplicity: that it fails to cohere with the application of accidental predicates like ‘creator’ or ‘lord’ to God, problematically entails that God is identical to an ...
Michelson, Jared
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Ibn Sina, Divine Simplicity and the Problem of Ineffability [PDF]
, 2023 This paper explores applying the truthmaker theory to address the challenge of divine simplicity and its alignment with Ibn Sina’s understanding of divine attributes. It proposes that God’s essence enables the predication of these attributes, eliminating
Khodadadi, Hossein, Hossein Khodadadi
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Descartes, God, eternal truths, Creation Doctrine, modality, indifference, omnipotence, essence, arithmetic, Aquinas, Adrian W. Moore. [PDF]
Public Reason, 2022 This paper offers a brief response to Patterson’s paper, ”Descartes on Modality and the Eternal Truths”, which itself is at least in part a response to Moore’s paper, ‘What Descartes ought to have thought about morality”.
Jonathan Head
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Divine Simplicity: A New Assessment [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- KalāmīOne of the attributes traditionally ascribed to God by medieval philosophers is divine simplicity. This article explores the various interpretations of divine simplicity presented by medieval thinkers, evaluating their philosophical plausibility.
Seyyed Jaaber Mousavirad
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Interpretation of Symbols, Veneration and Divine Attributes in Dieng Temple Complex, Central Java
Space and Culture, India, 2021 This study aims to discuss the divine symbols and attributes used as a medium of worship in the Dieng Plateau. The research was phased in according to Wallace's empirical cycle and was conducted in the Dieng Plateau, Central Java, Indonesia, a spiritual ...
Ni Kadek Surpi +3 more
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Nasir al-Din Tusi and Fadhil Miqdad on the Meaning of Divine Names through the Lens of Ibn Sina’s Doctrine on the Attributes of Necessary Being [PDF]
حکمت سینوی, 2023 Nasir al-Din Tusi, the pioneer of the “Philosophical Rationality” movement within the theological-philosophical school of Ḥillah, emphasized the examination of “first philosophy,” the effects of which could be seen in the more specific problems of ...
Hasan Abbasi Hosseinabadi +3 more
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TheoLogica, 2023 many philosophers have combined a Platonic metaphysics about abstract entities and a theistic conception according to which God is the creator of ‘heaven and earth’, of all ‘visible and ‘invisible’. Supposedly, God is the unique entity a se, i.
José Tomás Alvarado
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