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DESCARTES’S CREATION DOCTRINE AND MODALITY
by
Daniel Todd Considine
_________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PHILOSOPHY)
December 2008
Copyright 2008 Daniel Todd Considine
Object Description
| Title | Descartes's creation doctrine and modality |
| Author | Considine, Daniel Todd |
| Author email | dtconsidine@gmail.com; dconsidi@mscd.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Philosophy |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-10-10 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-10-31 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Van Cleve, James |
| Advisor (committee member) |
McCann, Edwin Heidsieck, Arnold |
| Abstract | My dissertation is an exploration of Descartes's "creation doctrine". I seek to provide an explanation of what the doctrine means and how it fits within his philosophical system. The creation doctrine states that eternal truths, such as the truths of metaphysics, mathematics, and logic, are freely created by, and depend entirely upon, God. Thus, principles and axioms which we normally hold to be absolutely necessary are not only established by God (thus implying that they came into existence), but also are established by a free act of God (thus implying that they are contingent on a will). I address this subject in response to recent criticism that Descartes's doctrine commits him to incoherence. I believe that Descartes's doctrine can be interpreted more judiciously than has been done in the literature, given his apparent commitments to certain methodological, philosophical, and theological principles.; The first half of my dissertation is the negative project of delineating the views which we should not take regarding Descartes's doctrine. The second half is the positive project of what I think Descartes is trying to say in this doctrine, and how this doctrine fits into his philosophical system. The doctrine is important as I believe it is the foundation for Descartes's views about modality, which I argue is a form of modal realism, and is an elaboration of Descartes's precise theological views, which holds that God's nature is entirely simple and immutable. |
| Keyword | Descartes; eternal truths; modality; Platonism |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1740 |
| Rights | Considine, Daniel Todd |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Considine-2490 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Considine-2490.pdf |
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| Full text | DESCARTES’S CREATION DOCTRINE AND MODALITY by Daniel Todd Considine _________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PHILOSOPHY) December 2008 Copyright 2008 Daniel Todd Considine |
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