Response To Van Inwagen And Welty
In response to my critics, I argue that Peter van Inwagen, despite his protestations, is an advocate of an indispensability argument for Platonism. What remains to be shown by van Inwagen is that his ...
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Articles exploring God's attribute of self-existence and the challenge posed to God's unique aseity by Platonism, the view that there are mind-independent abstract objects.
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Review Article: God and Necessity by Brian Leftow.
A critical review of Brian Leftow's claim to ground modality in God's will.
Read MoreNecessary Beings by Bob Hale
Bob Hale is one of the most important Platonists writing today. The unintended interface of his rich metaphysical theory of modality with theism is briefly explored....
Read MoreReview: Natur und Zahl: Die Mathematisierbarkeit der Welt by Bernulf Kanitscheider
A critical review of a prominent, non-theistic, German philosopher’s attempt to articulate a philosophy of mathematics consistent with naturalism, an attempt which, it is argued, fails, both wit...
Read MoreAbsolute creationism and divine conceptualism: A call for conceptual clarity
The contemporary debate over God and abstract objects is hampered by a lack of conceptual clarity concerning two distinct metaphysical views: absolute creationism and divine conceptualism. ...
Read More"Absolute Creation" And "Theistic Activism": A Plea For Terminological Uniformity
Morris and Menzel’s view that God is the Creator of abstract as well as concrete objects is variously referred to by the labels “absolute creation” and “theistic activism.&rdqu...
Read MoreGod and the Platonic Host
First given at the C. S. Lewis Society in Oxford, England, this lecture explores not only the challenge posed by Platonism to divine aseity but also C.S. Lwis’ interesting response to that chall...
Read MoreReview: An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics: Mathematics as the Science of Quantity and Structure
Review: An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics: Mathematics as the Science of Quantity and Structure by James Franklin. James Franklin aspires to a realist view of mathematical objec...
Read MoreResponse To Bridges And van Inwagen
Bridges’ so-called “moderate realism” is really a misnomer, since Aquinas’ view was that mathematical objects and universals are mere entia rationis, having no existence in the...
Read MoreGod and Abstract Objects
Central to classical theism is the conception of God as the sole ultimate reality, the creator of all things apart from Himself. Such a doctrine is rooted in Hebrew-Christian Scripture and unfol...
Read MoreGod and Abstract Objects
Platonism poses a challenge to the Christian doctrine that God is the sole ultimate reality. The claim of absolute creationism that God has created abstract objects faces the formidable problem ...
Read MorePeter Van Inwagen, Substitutional Quantification, and Ontological Commitment
Peter van Inwagen has long claimed that he doesn’t understand substitutional quantification and that the notion is, in fact, meaningless. Van Inwagen identifies the source of his bewilderment as...
Read MoreReview: God and Necessity
A critical review of Brian Leftow's attempt to safeguard divine aseity in the face of the challenge of Platonism.
Read MorePropositional Truth - Who Needs It?
On a deflationary view of truth the truth predicate does not ascribe a property of any explanatory significance to statements. The truth predicate is merely a device of semantic ascent, by means of wh...
Read MoreMary Leng's Mathematics and Reality
Mary Leng’s new book is a very thorough and closely argued response from a non-realist perspective to W. V. Quine’s Indispensability Argument for the existence of abstract objects, specifi...
Read MoreGod and the Platonic Host
This paper, presented before the C. S. Lewis Society in Oxford on the fiftieth anniversary of his death, surveys the options available to the theist for meeting the challenge posed by platonism to div...
Read MoreGod and Abstract Objects
To the uninitiated, platonism, science, and Christianity might seem poles apart. Neither the average scientist nor the average Christian, after all, finds abstract objects to be relevant to his quotid...
Read MoreVan Inwagen On Uncreated Beings
Peter van Inwagen argues that (1) there are uncreated abstract objects like properties and (2) the affirmation of the existence of uncreated abstract objects is consistent with the affirmation of the ...
Read MoreWhy are (some) Platonists so insouciant?
Some platonists truly agonize over the ontological commitments which their platonism demands of them. But many others are remarkably insouciant about positing the existence of abstract objects, despit...
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