Ontology and Providence in Creation Taking ex

In Ontology and Providence in Creation Mark Robson examines and rejects a particular philosophical understanding of the processes of creation. Many theologians and philosophers claim that creation is the actualizing of a possible world. Robson rejects thi

Mark Ian Thomas Robson is Head of Philosophy at St Robert of Newminster RC School and Sixth Form College, UK.

The Ontology of Creatio Ex Nihilo	p. 1
Leibniz's Ontology of the Possible	p. 3
The Ontology of Modern Modal Theories	p. 16
An Alternative Account Concerning Possibilia	p. 38
Vagueness and Indeterminateness	p. 64
Knowledge, Possibility and Ockham	p. 74
Divine Capacities	p. 96
Providential Aspects of Creatio Ex Nihilo	p. 107
Theories of Providence	p. 109
Providence and Indeterminateness	p. 129
God and Chance	p. 145
Creativity and Creatio Ex Nihilo	p. 161
The Notion of Creativity	p. 163
Externalism and the Creation of Meaning	p. 190
Conclusion	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 208
Index	p. 217
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