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Can God do what He wants or does God want what is in accordance with His very own nature? Is God bound by necessary principles or is necessary what God decrees? Such questions about the relationship between modalities and concepts of God are part of innumerable debates and reach far into the history of philosophy and theology. This study first examines the modal metaphysics of G.W. Leibniz's, D. Lewis' and A. Plantinga's metaphysics together with their very different ontological frameworks. Subsequently, the different forms of theism within contemporary debates within Analytic Philosophy are analyzed: classical and personal theism and panentheism. The heart of this study will be the analysis of the consistencies and inconsistencies that appear when, for metaphysical and ontological reasons, one wants to connect the different forms of theism with the modal theories of Lewis, Leibniz, or Plantinga. Kann Gott tun, was er will oder will Gott, was seinem Wesen entspricht? Ist Gott an notwendige Prinzipien gebunden oder ist notwendig, was Gott dekretiert? Derartige Fragen nach dem Verhältnis von Modalitäten und Gotteskonzepten sind Bestandteil unzähliger Debatten und reichen weit in die Philosophie- und Theologiegeschichte zurück. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht zunächst die Modalmetaphysiken G.W. Leibniz’, D. Lewis’ und A. Plantingas samt ihren sehr unterschiedlichen ontologischen Voraussetzungen. Im Anschluss werden die in der gegenwärtigen analytisch-religionsphilosophischen Debatte dominanten Formen des Theismus analysiert: der klassische und personale Theismus und der Panentheismus. Das Kernstück dieser Studie bildet die Analyse von Konsistenzen und Inkonsistenzen, die zutage treten, will man aus metaphysisch-ontologischen Gründen diese unterschiedlichen Formen des Theismus mit den Modaltheorien Lewis’, Leibniz’ oder Plantingas verbinden.

Philosophy of religion --- Leibniz; Philosophiegeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit; Early Modern Philosophy; Ideen; Ideas; Mögliche Welten; Possible Worlds; Theismus; Theism; Analytische Metaphysik; Analytic Metaphysics; Religionsphilosophie; Philosophy of Religion; Analytische Philosophie; Analytic Philosophy --- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, --- Lewis, David K. --- Plantinga, Alvin.

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Conditional structures lie at the heart of the sciences, humanities, and everyday reasoning. It is hence not surprising that conditional logics - logics specifically designed to account for natural language conditionals - are an active and interdisciplinary area. The present book gives a formal and a philosophical account of indicative and counterfactual conditionals in terms of Chellas-Segerberg semantics. For that purpose a range of topics are discussed such as Bennett's arguments against truth value based semantics for indicative conditionals.

Semantics (Philosophy) --- Intension (Philosophy) --- Logical semantics --- Semantics (Logic) --- Semeiotics --- Significs --- Syntactics --- Unified science --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Logical positivism --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Semiotics --- Signs and symbols --- Symbolism --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Definition (Philosophy) --- Conditional Logic. --- Modal Logic. --- Possible-Worlds Semantics. --- Ramsey Test.

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It seems reasonable to believe that there might have existed things other than those that in fact exist, or have existed. But how should we understand such claims? Standard semantic theories exploit the Leibnizian metaphor of a set of all possible worlds: a proposition might or must be true if it is true in some or all possible worlds. The actualist, who believes that nothing exists except what actually exists, prefers to talk of possible states of the world, or of ways that a world might be. But even the actualist still faces the problem of explaining what we are talking about when we talk about the domains of other possible worlds. In Mere Possibilities, Robert Stalnaker develops a framework for clarifying this problem, and explores a number of actualist strategies for solving it. Some philosophers have hypothesized a realm of individual essences that stand as proxies for all merely possible beings. Others have argued that we are committed to the necessary existence of everything that does or might exist. In contrast, Mere Possibilities shows how we can make sense of ordinary beliefs about what might and must exist without making counterintuitive metaphysical commitments. The book also sheds new light on the nature of metaphysical theorizing by exploring the interaction of semantic and metaphysical issues, the connections between different metaphysical issues, and the nature of ontological commitment.

Metaphysics. --- Modality (Logic) --- Possibility. --- Modal logic --- Logic --- Nonclassical mathematical logic --- Bisimulation --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Metaphysics --- Possibility --- David Lewis. --- actualist. --- anti-haecceitism. --- haecceitism. --- individual essence. --- intentionality. --- knowledge. --- metaphysical issues. --- metaphysics. --- minimal theory. --- modal metaphysics. --- modal naturalism. --- modal properties. --- modal quantification theory. --- modal rationalism. --- modal realism. --- modal reality. --- modal semantics. --- modality. --- ontological commitment. --- philosophical analysis. --- possibilities. --- possible worlds. --- properties. --- propositions. --- quantifiers. --- reduction. --- reference. --- relations. --- semantic theory. --- semantics. --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Philosophy of language --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

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Lexicology. Semantics --- Philosophy of language --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Mathematical linguistics --- Computational linguistics --- Language and languages --- Artificial intelligence --- Linguistique informatique --- Langage et langues --- Intelligence artificielle --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- -Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Automatic language processing --- Language data processing --- Natural language processing (Linguistics) --- Applied linguistics --- Cross-language information retrieval --- Multilingual computing --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Data processing --- -Philosophy --- Artificial intelligence. --- Language and languages - Philosophy --- Natural Language --- Quantification --- Semantics --- Generalized Quantifiers --- Situation --- Possible Worlds

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Humanity's creative capacity has never been more unsettling than it is at our current moment, when it has ushered us into new technological worlds that challenge the very definition of "the human." Those anxious to safeguard the human against techno-scientific threats often appeal to religious traditions to protect the place and dignity of the human. But how well do we understand both theological tradition and today's technological culture? In The Indiscrete Image, Thomas A. Carlson challenges our common ideas about both, arguing instead that it may be humanity's final lack of definition that first enables, and calls for, human creativity and its correlates-including technology, tradition, and their inextricable interplay within religious existence. Framed in response to Martin Heidegger's influential account of the relation between technological modernity and theological tradition, The Indiscrete Image builds an understanding of creativity as conditioned by insurmountable unknowing and incalculable possibility through alternative readings of Christian theological tradition and technological culture-and the surprising resonance between these two. Carlson concludes that the always ongoing work of world creation, tied essentially to human self-creation, implies neither an idol's closure nor an icon's transcendence, but the "indiscrete image" whose love makes possible-by keeping open-both the human and its world.

Theological anthropology --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Negative theology. --- Postmodernism --- Technology --- Man (Christian theology) --- Anthropology, Philosophical --- Man (Philosophy) --- Civilization --- Life --- Ontology --- Humanism --- Persons --- Philosophy of mind --- Christianity. --- Religious aspects --- Philosophy --- Heidegger, Martin, --- Khaĭdegger, Martin, --- Haĭdegger, Martin, --- Hīdajar, Mārtin, --- Hai-te-ko, --- Haidegŏ, --- Chaitenger, Martinos, --- Chaitenker, Martinos, --- Chaintenger, Martin, --- Khaĭdeger, Martin, --- Hai-te-ko-erh, --- Haideger, Marṭinn, --- Heidegger, M. --- Haideger, Martin, --- Hajdeger, Martin, --- הייגדר, מרתין --- היידגר, מרטין --- היידגר, מרטין, --- 海德格尔, --- Chaintenker, Martin, --- Hāydigir, Mārtīn, --- Hīdigir, Mārtīn, --- هاىدگر, مارتين, --- هىدگر, مارتين, --- Negative theology --- Philosophical anthropology --- 230*705 --- 233 --- 230*705 Post-moderne theologie. Postmoderne theologie --- Post-moderne theologie. Postmoderne theologie --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Post-modernism --- Postmodernism (Philosophy) --- Arts, Modern --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Modernism (Art) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Post-postmodernism --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- De mens. Theologische antropologie --- Heidegger, Martin --- creativity, humanity, technology, religion, tradition, heidegger, modernity, theology, creation, transcendance, love, theological anthropology, postmodernism, christianity, technopoetics, mysticism, spirituality, faith, belief, inspiration, hope, futures, possible worlds, nonfiction, history, infinite, human spirit, possibility, potential.