RT Article
T1 Getting God Out of Our (Modal) Business
JF Sophia
VO 48
IS 4
SP 379
OP 391
A1 Hanrahan, Rebecca
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785590715
AB Some hold that if we can imagine God creating a world in which a particular proposition (p) is true, then we can conclude that p is possible. I argue that such appeals to God can’t provide us with a guide to possibility. For either God’s powers aren’t co-extensive with the possible or they are. And if they are, these appeals either beg the question or court a version of Euthyphro’s Dilemma. Some may argue that such appeals were only intended to prompt us to think broadly about the modal claim at issue. I argue instead that these appeals must be understood as more than mere prompts. For it is these appeals that would, if successful, render the conceivability principle viable.
K1 Euthyphro’s Dilemma
K1 Possibility
K1 Conceivability
K1 God
DO 10.1007/s11841-009-0138-z