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The mind of God and the works of nature : laws and powers in naturalism, platonism, and classical theism /
Historians of science have long considered the very idea of a law-governed universe to be the relic of a bygone intellectual culture that took it largely for granted that a divine lawmaker existed. Similarly, many philosophers of science today insist that the notion of a law of nature is fraught wit...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leuven :
Peeters Publishers,
2019.
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| Series: | Studies in philosophical theology ;
65. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The puzzle of lawmaking
- Humean lawlessness and nature's kindness
- Laws as relations: the pressure of Platonism
- Laws as powers: the fresco problems
- The turn from naturalism: two platonic strategies
- Divine lawmaking and causal powers
- Divine concepts and natural order.