The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings addresses the problems an Anselmian perfect being faces in contexts involving unlimited options. Recent advances in the theory of vagueness, the metaphysics of multiverses and hyperspace, the theory of dynamic or sequential choice, the logic of moral and rational dilemmas, and metaethical theory provide the resources to formulate the new challenges and the Anselmian responses with an unusual degree of precision. Almeida shows that the challenges arising in the unusual contexts involving unlimited options sometimes produce metaphysical surprise.
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Michael J. Almeida teaches philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is the author of numerous articles on philosophy of religion, ethics and metaethics published in journals such as Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophia, Philosophical Papers, Philosophical Studies, and Theoria.
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supervenience thesis, plenitudinous hyperspace, multiverse solution, actualize some world, actual multiverse, theistic modal realists, hyperspace solution, perfect beings fail, metaphysical identicals, single best possible world, best actualizable world, guaranteed epistemic access, admissible precisification, being can actualize, improvable world, simple possible world, maximally consistent state, pairwise options, property being commanded, actualize any world, same moral state, kin lei, maximally great being, setting kin, nonmoral facts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings, Less-than-Best Problem, Theistic Modal Realism, Turner's Multiverse Solution, Rowe's Argument, Problem of No Maximum Evil, Logic of Imperfection, Rational Perfection Principle, Anselmian God, Atheistic Arguments From Improvability, Free Command Thesis, Moral Perfection Principles, Vague Minimum Thesis, William Rowe, Hudson's Hyperspace Solution, Plantingan Modal Realism, Maximum Thesis, Absolute Orderings, Principle of Plenitude, Vague Eschatology, All-Worlds Hypothesis, Lifeguard Situation, Kretzmann's Conclusion, Coherence of Perfect Beings, Tim Williamson Browse Sample Pages:
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supervenience thesis, plenitudinous hyperspace, multiverse solution, actualize some world, actual multiverse, theistic modal realists, hyperspace solution, perfect beings fail, metaphysical identicals, single best possible world, best actualizable world, guaranteed epistemic access, admissible precisification, being can actualize, improvable world, simple possible world, maximally consistent state, pairwise options, property being commanded, actualize any world, same moral state, kin lei, maximally great being, setting kin, nonmoral facts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings, Less-than-Best Problem, Theistic Modal Realism, Turner's Multiverse Solution, Rowe's Argument, Problem of No Maximum Evil, Logic of Imperfection, Rational Perfection Principle, Anselmian God, Atheistic Arguments From Improvability, Free Command Thesis, Moral Perfection Principles, Vague Minimum Thesis, William Rowe, Hudson's Hyperspace Solution, Plantingan Modal Realism, Maximum Thesis, Absolute Orderings, Principle of Plenitude, Vague Eschatology, All-Worlds Hypothesis, Lifeguard Situation, Kretzmann's Conclusion, Coherence of Perfect Beings, Tim Williamson Browse Sample Pages:
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