Necessary Suffering and Lewisian Theism

Theism and Dialetheism

The divine attributes of omniscience and omnipotence have faced objections to their very consistency. Such objections rely on reasoning parallel to the semantic paradoxes such as the Liar or the set-theoretic paradoxes like Russell’s paradox. With the advent of paraconsistent logics, dialetheism— the view that some contradictions are true — became a major player in the search for a solution to ...

Theism and Physical Cosmology1

A Lewisian History of Philosophy

NG~eat phhilosophers force us to rethink not only the future of philosophy, but also its past Or as 1etzsc e more grand! t ·t "E · • c f h. . . Y pu s t : ·very great human being exerts a retroactive force: for his sake all ~. isto? ts put. on ~~e scale a~ain, and a thousand secrets of the past crawl out of their hiding places . mto /us sunshmc. ln what follows. wielding the bright light of Lew...

Theism & Mathematical Realism

Historically, most mathematicians have believed that mathematical truths such as "2+5=7" exist independently of human minds, being universally and eternally true. Mathematicians believe they are discovering properties of, say, prime numbers, rather than merely inventing them. This view of mathematics dates back to Pythagoras (500 BC) and Plato (400 BC). It is often called “Platonism”. In order ...

Theism, Platonism, and the Metaphysics of Mathematics

1 The Dilemma of the Theistic Platonist Theists generally hold that God is the creator of all there is distinct from himself. Traditionally, the scope of God's creative activity has extended across two disjoint realms: the physical, whose chief exemplars are ordinary middle-size objects, and the mental or spiritual, encompassing such things as angels and souls. Now, many theists are also platon...