God and the logic of worlds

 


I. Introduction to Modality and Possibility  

A. Modal Logic Introduced (download .pdf file) 

B. Introduction to Modality and Possibility (G. W. F. Leibniz and David Lewis)



II. How Modal Logic Enhances Theology 

A. In the second clip below, around 1:20, we find out how a logic of possible worlds can enhance theology.

III. Plantinga on Leibniz's best of all possible worlds argument




IV. Is God a necessary being (in all worlds)?  Or is God an absolutely contingent being that may be (now), but once is, must be?

V. Why this World?  Modal Realism and God

A. Would Multiple Universes Undermine God? Closer to Truth Program PBS (link to videos)

B. Why this World?  (Skeptic Magazine article)

C. Cosmology and Theology (Stanford Entry)

D. Are there Multiple Universes?

E. How Vast is the Cosmos?

VI. Charles Hartshorne: The Logic of Perfection 

A. Charles Hartshorne (Stanford entry)

B. Charles Hartshorne (Harvard Square)

C. Ontological Arguments (Stanford entry)

D. "Charles Hartshorne and the Ontological Argument" (Process Studies, Vol. 14, Number 1, Spring, 1984): 11-20.

E. Hartshorne's Modal Argument