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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Main Author: Page, Ben (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Zygon
Year: 2015, Volume: 50, Issue: 1, Pages: 113-137
Further subjects: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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