Divine Lawmaker

Lectures on Induction, Laws of Nature, and the Existence of God

Autor: John Foster

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Wydawca: Oxford University Press

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John Foster presents a clear and powerful discussion of a range of topics relating to our understand...

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Autor

John Foster

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2004

strony

204

EAN

9780199250592

ISBN

0199250596

Enbook ID

04530329

Wydawca

Oxford University Press

Waga

390

Wymiary

146 x 223 x 19

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John Foster presents a clear and powerful discussion of a range of topics relating to our understanding of the universe: induction, laws of nature, and the existence of God. He begins by developing a solution to the problem of induction - a solution whose key idea is that the regularities in the workings of nature that have held in our experience hitherto are to be explained by appeal to the controlling influence of laws, as forms of natural necessity. His second line of argument focuses on the issue of what we should take such necessitational laws to be, and whether we can even make sense of them at all. Having considered and rejected various alternatives, Foster puts forward his own proposal: the obtaining of a law consists in the causal imposing of a regularity on the universe as a regularity. With this causal account of laws in place, he is now equipped to offer an argument for theism. His claim is that natural regularities call for explanation, and that, whatever explanatory role we may initially assign to laws, the only plausible ultimate explanation is in terms of the agency of God. Finally, he argues that, once we accept the existence of God, we need to think of him as creating the universe by a method which imposes regularities on it in the relevant law-yielding way. In this new perspective, the original nomological-explanatory solution to the problem of induction becomes a theological-explanatory solution. The Divine Lawmaker is bold and original in its approach, and rich in argument. The issues on which it focuses are among the most important in the whole epistemological and metaphysical spectrum.

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