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How to Be Omnipresent

Sam Cowling & Wesley D. Cray

American Philosophical Quarterly 54 (3):223-234 (2017)

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Creating abstract objects.David Friedell - 2021 - Philosophy Compass 16 (10):e12783.details Beach's Gaelic Symphony is plausibly an abstract object that Beach created. The view that people create some abstract objects is called abstract creationism. There are abstract creationists about many kinds of objects, including musical works, fictional characters, arguments, words, internet memes, installation artworks, bitcoins, and restaurants. Alternative theories include materialism and Platonism. This paper discusses some of the most serious objections against abstract creationism. Arguably, these objections have ramifications for questions in metaphysics pertaining to the abstract/concrete distinction, time, causation, vague (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
God’s Necessity on Anselmian Theistic Genuine Modal Realism.Matthew James Collier - 2019 - Sophia 58 (3):331-348.details On Anselmian theism, God is, amongst other things, a necessary being. On genuine modal realism, possible worlds are maximal mereological sums of spatiotemporally connected individuals. I argue in this paper that AT and GMR are either incompatible or their conjunction leads to—amongst other things—modal collapse. Specifically, I argue: regardless of whether God is concrete or abstract, His necessary existence either is inconsistent with AT-GMR or it leads to, amongst other things, modal collapse for AT-GMR. I conclude the paper by contending (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 7 citations
God’s place in the world.Matthew James Collier - 2020 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 89 (1):43-65.details Lewisian theism is the view that both traditional theism and Lewis’s modal realism are true. On Lewisian theism, God must exist in worlds in one of the following ways: God can be said to have a counterpart in each world; God can be said to exist in each world in the way that a universal can be said to exist in worlds, i.e. through transworld identity; God can be said to be a scattered individual, with a part of God existing (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations
Against the Fundamental‐Reading of Anselm's Account of Omnipresence.Matthew James Collier - 2021 - Heythrop Journal 62 (4):680-690.details Download Export citation Bookmark
Relativity and the Causal Efficacy of Abstract Objects.Tim Juvshik - 2020 - American Philosophical Quarterly 57 (3):269-282.details Abstract objects are standardly taken to be causally inert, however principled arguments for this claim are rarely given. As a result, a number of recent authors have claimed that abstract objects are causally efficacious. These authors take abstracta to be temporally located in order to enter into causal relations but lack a spatial location. In this paper, I argue that such a position is untenable by showing first that causation requires its relata to have a temporal location, but second, that (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 12 citations
Against the Fundamental‐Reading of Anselm's Account of Omnipresence.Matthew James - 2021 - Heythrop Journal 62 (4):680-690.details Download Export citation Bookmark
Omnipresence.Edward Wierenga - 2019 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.details Download Export citation Bookmark 7 citations

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