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SUMMARY:Divine Bootstrapping:  Do Abstract Objects Lead to Atheism?
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LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\, OX1 3LY
DESCRIPTION:<p>On 11 March\, Professor Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers) will deliver a talk entitled "Divine Bootstrapping:&nbsp\; Do Abstract Objects Lead to Atheism?" at Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford.</p>\n<p>This event is free and open to the public.</p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Realism about a certain kind of &ldquo\;abstract object&rdquo\;\, namely\, universals or properties\, has been thought to pose a problem for theism.&nbsp\; To be a realist about universals or properties is just to believe that they exist.&nbsp\; First\, I talk about two different kinds of reason to believe in them\, which lead to two different roles they are supposed to play.&nbsp\; For the sake of argument\, I&rsquo\;ll assume they&rsquo\;re both good reasons.&nbsp\; Does realism about universals lead to a problem for theism &mdash\; for a certain specific kind of theism\, one that says only God exists &ldquo\;a se&rdquo\;\, not dependent upon anything?&nbsp\; We&rsquo\;ll look at two arguments that say there would be a bad kind of circle of dependence.&nbsp\; Paying attention to the two roles universals are supposed to play will show that the two arguments fail\, for two different reasons.&nbsp\; The arguments were developed before the relatively recent growth of the &ldquo\;grounding&rdquo\; literature\; but they have to do with inadmissible grounding structure\; so I&rsquo\;ll be connecting these debates\, which make use of notions of priority\, to the metaphysics of grounds.</p>\n<p><strong>Dean Zimmerman</strong> (Ph.D.\, Brown University) has taught at the University of Notre Dame\, Syracuse University\, and Rutgers University\, where he is a Distinguished Professor in the philosophy department and co-director of the Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion.&nbsp\; Zimmerman is founding editor of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (now co-edited with Karen Bennett)\, and co-editor of Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Religion (with Lara Buchak).&nbsp\; He has co-edited several other books\, including Persons:&nbsp\; Human and Divine (Oxford University Press\, 2007)\, and God in an Open Universe (Pickwick\, 2011).&nbsp\; His publications include over 60 articles in scholarly journals and books.&nbsp\; Zimmerman is also the U.S. Representative of The Friends of Arthur Machen.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Ralph Stefan Weir;CN=Daniel D. De Haan;CN=Howard Robinson:
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