Yesterday I started working on a new book (or possibly a very big paper, but probably a book). Title: Infinity, Causation and Paradox. Thesis: Nothing can be causally effected by infinitely many things.
I would get this book the second I saw it was out. This could be tremendously useful for thinking through how B-theorists might be able to appropriate a Kalam Cosmological Argument.
And indeed one of the two applications in Chapter 8 is planned to be to the Kalaam argument. (The other is an argument for an Aristotelian discrete time.)
What are your thoughts on Aquinas' theses that [1] an infinite series of accidentally-ordered efficient causes is possible and that [2] infinite days could have preceded this present day? Have you ever written something about it? Thank you very much and I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask it.
Good luck!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It's a fun project, though I'm still working on the preliminaries.
ReplyDeleteI would get this book the second I saw it was out. This could be tremendously useful for thinking through how B-theorists might be able to appropriate a Kalam Cosmological Argument.
ReplyDeleteAnd indeed one of the two applications in Chapter 8 is planned to be to the Kalaam argument. (The other is an argument for an Aristotelian discrete time.)
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Dear Prof. Pruss,
ReplyDeleteWhat are your thoughts on Aquinas' theses that [1] an infinite series of accidentally-ordered efficient causes is possible and that [2] infinite days could have preceded this present day? Have you ever written something about it? Thank you very much and I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask it.
Dante: I deny [2], but I think [1] can probably be supported independently of the denial of [2].
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Progress:
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I split chapter 8 into 8 and 9. Progress report:
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