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- Title
God and Dispositional Essentialism: An Account of the Laws of Nature.
- Authors
Adams, Dani
- Abstract
Abstract: It is common to appeal to governing laws of nature in order to explain the existence of natural regularities. Classical theism, however, maintains the sovereignty thesis: everything distinct from God is created by him and is under his guidance and control. It follows from this that God must somehow be responsible for natural laws and regularities. Therefore, theists need an account of the relation between (i) regularities, (ii) laws, and (iii) God. I examine competing accounts of laws of nature and conclude that dispositional essentialism provides the most satisfactory explanation of the relation between (i), (ii) and (iii).
- Subjects
ESSENTIALISM (Philosophy); SOVEREIGNTY; DIVINE Lawmaker, The (Book); FOSTER, John; ARMSTRONG, David
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2018, Vol 99, Issue 2, p293
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/papq.12162