Omniscience: From a Logical Point of View

✍ Scribed by Paul Weingartner

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 202
• Series: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis; 23
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The aim of the book is to clarify the concept of omniscience. This is done first by discussing basic questions on omniscience (chs.1-12) and secondly by offering a theory of omniscience as an axiomatic system in which also a definition of omniscience is given (ch.13). The twelve chapters deal with questions like whether everything is true what God  knows, whether God´s knowledge is bound to time, whether it concerns singular truths or only laws, whether it extends also to contingent future events.etc. The book is neither a book about the existence of God nor about proofs for his existence. It is a book about the possibility of a consistent concept of omniscience which can be attributed to God. And it invalidates opposite claims and shows that they are based on wrong or very doubtful premises. The pros and cons at the beginning of each chapter represent different positions and objections which are clarified and discussed in the answer to the objections.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
1. Whether Everything is True What GodKnows
2. Whether God Necessarily Knows WhateverHe Knows
3. Whether God Knows Something at SomeTime
4. Whether God Knows All Past and PresentEvents
5. Whether God's Knowledge Exceeds HisPower
6. Whether God Causes Everything What HeKnows
7. Whether God Knows Singular Truths?
8. Whether God's Knowledge of Singular,Contingent Truths Implies the Mutability ofGod
9. Whether God Knows What Is Not
10. Whether Knowledge or Truth Can Changethe Status of a State of Affairs
11. Whether God Knows Future States ofAffairs
12. Whether God Knows Everything That isTrue
13. A Theory of Omniscience
LITERATURE
Subject Index
Name Index