God and Abstract Objects

Discusses a new kind of solution to the problem of belief in God and abstract objects.

Einar Duenger Bøhn (Author)

9781108457446, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 August 2019

75 pages
23 x 15.3 x 0.4 cm, 0.15 kg

'Bøhn's overview is very insightful. His overview of proposed solutions … is also very good.' Matthew Baddorf, Religious Studies Review

Some believe that there is a God who is the source of all things; and some believe that there are necessarily existing abstract objects. But can one believe both these things? That is the question of this Element. First, Einar Duenger Bøhn clarifies the concepts involved, and the problem that arises from believing in both God and abstract objects. Second, he presents and discusses the possible kinds of solutions to that problem. Third, Bøhn discusses a new kind of solution to the problem, according to which reality is most fundamentally made of information.

Introduction
1. The problem
2. The positions
3. Towards a new theory – divine informationalism
Concluding remarks.

Subject Areas: Nature & existence of God [HRAB1], Philosophy of religion [HRAB], Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology [HPJ], Philosophy [HP]