In What Sense Is It Impossible for the Universe to Come from Nothing?
09.11.2016kalam cosmological argument, logical necessity, metaphysical necessity, nothingness
Why Does God Exist?
03.06.2016aseity, concept of god, divine aseity, existence of god, metaphysical necessity
Struggling with the Ontological Argument
02.29.2016alvin plantinga, maximal greatness, metaphysical necessity, ontological argument for gods existence
Necessity and the Argument from Contingency
07.14.2014contingency argument, divine aseity, leibnizian cosmological argument, metaphysical necessity, modality
Fine Tuning and Physical Necessity
04.15.2013fine tuning argument, laws of nature, many worlds hypothesis, metaphysical necessity, teleology
Can God Ground Necessary Moral Truths?
12.16.2012explanation, metaphysical necessity, moral duties, moral epistemology, moral ontology, moral values, objective moral values and duties
Is Part of the Universe a Necessary Being?
10.17.2011c. stephen layman, contingency argument, metaphysical necessity, naturalism, origin of the universe, universe
God’s Necessity
07.20.2009metaphysical necessity, modality, necessary v. contingent existence, ontological argument