The Contingency of Necessity: Reason and God as Matters of Fact
The Contingency of Necessity: Reason and God as Matters of Fact By Tyler Tritten
2017 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1474428223 | EPUB | 1 MB
2017 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1474428223 | EPUB | 1 MB
Focusing on the central striking claim that all necessity is consequent. Tritten engages with ancient and contemporary philosophers including Quentin Meillassoux, Richard Kearney, Friedrich Schelling, Émile Boutroux and Markus Gabriel. He argues that even reason and God, while necessary according to essence, are contingent in existence. Review "This is a difficult but important work for those researching in these areas. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. "--A. Jaeger, Benedictine College, Choice About the Author Tyler Tritten is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Gonzaga University. He is the author of Beyond Presence: The Late F. W. J. Schelling's Criticism of Metaphysics (De Gruyter, 2012) and he is co-editor of a special issue of the journal Angelaki: Nature, Speculation and the Return to Schelling **(Vol 21.4, 2017).