CFP: Topoi: Divine Attributes
Submission deadline: October 30, 2015
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Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy
DIVINE ATTRIBUTES
Deadline for submission: October 30, 2015
GUEST EDITORS: Ciro De Florio (Università Cattolica, Milan) Aldo Frigerio (Università Cattolica, Milan) Georg Gasser (Department of Christian Philosophy, Innsbruck)
OVERVIEW
Divine attributes are one of the most important topics within the debate of analytic philosophy of religion. In literature some distinguished essays dedicated to this general issue (E.R. Wierenga, The Nature of God. An Inquiry into Divine Attributes; S.T. Davis, Logic and The Nature of God; G. J. Hughes, The Nature of God) and a series of seminal papers concerning particular aspects of the topic can be found. However, this topic is not only central to contemporary philosophy of religion but also deeply intertwined with general logical, ontological and metaphysical questions. For instance, it is hard to overestimate in this field of research the importance of the concepts of necessity and possibility, of causation, of non-contradiction and so on. The very extreme nature of the enquiry on God requires to analyze carefully the fundamental categories by which we try to grasp the ultimate divine nature as well as more mundane entities. In other terms, the philosophical enquiry on God forces us to stress our concepts and intuitions about being, knowledge, modality and cause, putting them on probation and checking their intrinsic coherence.
POSSIBLE TOPICS
• Attributes concerning the nature of God intended as supreme entity and as necessary, infinite, perfectly simple, eternal and so on.
• Attributes concerning God as agent and cognizer, that is, attributes that have to do with God being a person.
• Logical and metaphysical conditions under which we can say that a being is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and so on.
• The coherence of the divine attributes.
• The compossibility of divine attributes.
• The relationships between divine attributes and other philosophical concepts, e. g. omniscience and free will.
INVITED CONTRIBUTORS
Stephen T. Davis (Claremont McKenna, USA)
Adam Green (Azusa Pacific University)
Daniel Howard-Synder (Western Washington University)
Frances Howard-Synder (Western Washington University)
Graham Oppy (Monash University)
Richard Swinburne (Oxford University)
SUBMISSION PROCESS
Papers must be in English and should not exceed 8,000 words. Each submission should also include a separate title page containing contact details, a brief abstract and list of keywords for indexing purposes. All papers will be subject to double-blind peer- review, following international standard practices. Manuscripts should be submitted exclusively through the Online Manuscript Submission System (Editorial Manager), accessible at http://www.editorialmanager.com/topo/ Please save your manuscript in one of the formats supported by the system (e.g., Word, WordPerfect, RTF, TXT, LATEX2e, TEX, Postscript, etc.), which does NOT include PDF. Make sure to select the appropriate article type for your submission by selecting “S.I.: Divine Attributes (De Florio/Frigerio/Gasser)” as the appropriate tab from the scroll-down menu.
For any further information please contact: Ciro De Florio [email protected] or Aldo Frigerio [email protected].