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Author: William Lane Craig
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
Weight: 9.516kg
ISBN: 9783319553832
ISBN 10: 3319553836
Pages: 540
Publication Date: 18 September 2017
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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“God and Abstract Objects (G&AO), William Lane Craig codifies over a dozen years of research and reflection on the threat that realist views of abstract objects pose to divine aseity. … G&AO intended for a non-specialist audience. It is directed primarily to philosophers and theologians, … .” (C.A. McIntosh, Philosophy in Review, Vol. 39 (2), May, 2019) “In God and Abstract Objects, Craig sets about defusing the tension by exploring the options for accounting for mathematical practice and its role in our lives … . He does this by means of an impressive synoptic overview of the contemporary philosophy of mathematics, examining positions that might offer the theistic philosopher a way to preserve the doctrine of aseity. …The detailed engagement with positions in the philosophy of mathematics is to be found in God and Abstract Objects… .” (Simon Hewitt, Philosophia Mathematica, August, 2018)
God and Abstract Objects (G&AO), William Lane Craig codifies over a dozen years of research and reflection on the threat that realist views of abstract objects pose to divine aseity. ... G&AO intended for a non-specialist audience. It is directed primarily to philosophers and theologians, ... . (C.A. McIntosh, Philosophy in Review, Vol. 39 (2), May, 2019) In God and Abstract Objects, Craig sets about defusing the tension by exploring the options for accounting for mathematical practice and its role in our lives ... . He does this by means of an impressive synoptic overview of the contemporary philosophy of mathematics, examining positions that might offer the theistic philosopher a way to preserve the doctrine of aseity. ...The detailed engagement with positions in the philosophy of mathematics is to be found in God and Abstract Objects... . (Simon Hewitt, Philosophia Mathematica, August, 2018)
In God and Abstract Objects, Craig sets about defusing the tension by exploring the options for accounting for mathematical practice and its role in our lives ... . He does this by means of an impressive synoptic overview of the contemporary philosophy of mathematics, examining positions that might offer the theistic philosopher a way to preserve the doctrine of aseity. ...The detailed engagement with positions in the philosophy of mathematics is to be found in God and Abstract Objects... . (Simon Hewitt, Philosophia Mathematica, August, 2018)
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William Lane Craig is Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and Houston Baptist University. A Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, he delivered the Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham in 2015. He has authored or edited over 40 books and over 150 articles in philosophical and theological journals. Research interests include metaphysics, philosophy of time, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of mathematics.
