The Divine Lawmaker
Lectures on Induction, Laws of Nature, and the Existence of God
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 January 2004
- ISBN 9780199250592
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages204 pages
- Size 224x145x15 mm
- Weight 386 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
John Foster presents a clear and powerful discussion of a range of topics relating to our understanding of the universe: induction, laws of nature, and the existence of God. He begins by developing a solution to the problem of induction - a solution that involves the postulation of laws of nature, as forms of natural necessity. He then offers a radically new account of the nature of such laws and the distinctive kind of necessity they involve. Finally, he uses this account as the basis for an argument for the existence of God as the creator of the laws and the universe they govern.
The Divine Lawmaker is bold and original in its approach, and rich in argument.
Long description:
John Foster presents a clear and powerful discussion of a range of topics relating to our understanding of the universe: induction, laws of nature, and the existence of God. He begins by developing a solution to the problem of induction - a solution whose key idea is that the regularities in the workings of nature that have held in our experience hitherto are to be explained by appeal to the controlling influence of laws, as forms of natural necessity. His second line of argument focuses on the issue of what we should take such necessitational laws to be, and whether we can even make sense of them at all. Having considered and rejected various alternatives, Foster puts forward his own proposal: the obtaining of a law consists in the causal imposing of a regularity on the universe as a regularity. With this causal account of laws in place, he is now equipped to offer an argument for theism. His claim is that natural regularities call for explanation, and that, whatever explanatory role we may initially assign to laws, the only plausible ultimate explanation is in terms of the agency of God. Finally, he argues that, once we accept the existence of God, we need to think of him as creating the universe by a method which imposes regularities on it in the relevant law-yielding way. In this new perspective, the original nomological-explanatory solution to the problem of induction becomes a theological-explanatory solution.
The Divine Lawmaker is bold and original in its approach, and rich in argument. The issues on which it focuses are among the most important in the whole epistemological and metaphysical spectrum.
A very clear and well-organized book, with regular summaries of the argument so far and virtually no distracting asides. It is incredibly easy to read.
Table of Contents:
The Problem of Induction
Some Attempted Solutions
The Nomological-explanatory Solution
Two Objections to NES
The Problem of Laws
Armstrong's Theory
The Scenario without Laws
The Theistic Account
God and Laws
Completing the Picture
