Theism And Ultimate Explanation by Timothy O'Connor
The Necessary Shape of Contingency
A rigorous philosophical case is made that the existence and fundamental order of a contingent cosmos call for an ultimate explanation, defended by a refined principle of sufficient reason and the intelligibility of explanation at the widest scale. It critiques naturalistic appeals to brute facts, cosmic necessity, or multiverse proposals as failing to yield a non-arbitrary stopping point, and develops a modal cosmological argument for a necessarily existent, personal agent who freely creates. Along the way, it clarifies notions of grounding, modality, and causal agency while engaging contemporary scientific and philosophical objections.
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- Published
- 2008
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- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 168-176
- Original Language
- English
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