Currying Omnipotence: A Reply to Beall and Cotnoir

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 7 (2):119-121 (2018)
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Beall and Cotnoir (2017) argue that theists may accept the claim that God's omnipotence is fully unrestricted if they also adopt a suitable nonclassical logic. Their primary focus is on the infamous Stone problem (i.e., whether God can create a stone too heavy for God to lift). We show how unrestricted omnipotence generates Curry‐like paradoxes. The upshot is that Beall and Cotnoir only provide a solution to one version of the Stone problem, but that unrestricted omnipotence generates other problems which they do not adequately address.

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Andrew Tedder
University of Connecticut
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University of Queensland

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