The Dispositionalist Deity: How God Creates Laws and Why Theists Should Care

How does God govern the world? For many theists “laws of nature” play a vital role. But what are these laws, metaphysically speaking? I shall argue that laws of nature are not external to the objects they govern, but instead should be thought of as reducible to internal features of properties. Recen...

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Auteur principal: Page, Ben (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
Dans: Zygon
Année: 2015, Volume: 50, Numéro: 1, Pages: 113-137
Sujets non-standardisés:B Concurrentism
B laws of nature
B Occasionalism
B Ontology
B philosophy of science
B Dispositions
B Powers
B Metaphysics
B God
B Teleology
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