Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-hc48f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T02:42:35.463Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

God exists at every (modal realist) world: response to Sheehy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2009

ROSS P. CAMERON
ROSS P. CAMERON
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT e-mail: [email protected]
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Paul Sheehy has argued that the modal realist cannot satisfactorily allow for the necessity of God's existence. In this short paper I show that she can, and that Sheehy only sees a problem because he has failed to appreciate all the resources available to the modal realist. God may be an abstract existent outside spacetime or He may not be: but either way, there is no problem for the modal realist to admit that He exists at every concrete possible world.

Type
Articles
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 95 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Notes

1. Sheehy, Paul ‘Theism and modal realism’, Religious Studies, 42 (2006), 315–328CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2. The canonical presentation and defence of modal realism is in David Lewis On the Plurality of Worlds (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986).

3. Sheehy ‘Theism and modal realism’, 319.

4. David Lewis ‘Postscripts to “Counterpart theory and quantified modal logic”’, 39–40, in his Philosophical Papers volume 1, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), 39–46.

5. Ibid., 40.

6. Sheehy ‘Theism and modal realism’, 319.

7. David Lewis ‘New work for a theory of universals’, 11, n. 5, in his Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 8–55.