Friday, February 15, 2019

Supervenience and omniscience

Problem: It seems that if God necessarily exists, then the moral automatically supervenes on the non-moral. For, any two worlds that differ in moral facts also differ in what God believes about moral facts, and presumably belief facts are non-moral. This trivializes the mechanism of supervenience for theists.

Potential Solution: Divine simplicity makes God’s beliefs about God-external facts be externally constituted. Thus, a part of what makes it true that God believes that there are sheep are the sheep. If so, then perhaps a part of what makes it true that God believes a moral fact is that very moral fact. Thus, God’s beliefs about moral facts are partly constituted by the moral facts, and hence are not themselves non-moral.

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