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38Great minds think alike Thomas Aquinas and Alvin Plantinga on divine action in naturePhilosophia Reformata 79 (1): 8-20. 2014.In the first part of this paper I argue that even if at first Alvin Plantinga’s reasons for allowing special divine action seem similar to those of Thomas Aquinas, particularly in De Potentia Dei for allowing miracles, the difference in their metaphysical language makes Aquinas’ account less prone to the objections raised against Plantinga’s. In the second part I argue that Plantinga errs when recurring to quantum mechanics for allowing special divine action, making God to be a cause among cause…Read more
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938A Cause Among Causes? God Acting in the Natural WorldEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (4): 99--114. 2015.Contemporary debates on divine action tend to focus on finding a space in nature where there would be no natural causes, where nature offers indeterminacy, openness, and potentiality, to place God’s action. These places are found through the natural sciences, in particular quantum mechanics. God’s action is then located in those ontological ”causal-gaps’ offered by certain interpretations of quantum mechanics. In this view, God would determine what is left underdetermined in nature without disru…Read more
Ignacio Silva
Universidad Austral
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Universidad AustralResearch Fellow