God's Problem of Cut-and-Paste

Faith and Philosophy (forthcoming)
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Abstract

I argue that classical theism is in tension with a kind of modal recombination principle known as ‘cut-and-paste’. I develop this tension at length, giving two arguments against theism based on cut-and-paste. I then both lay out and respond to various original proposals for reconciling theism with cut-and-paste. I conclude by measuring the cost of having to deny cut-and-paste. I argue that while there is an intuitive cost to this consequence of theism, theists also have plausible ways of addressing various motivations for cut-and-paste.

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Noah Gordon
University of Southern California (PhD)

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