Abstract
This paper attempts to show that the doctrine of divine simplicity suffers from difficulties which undermine its plausibility. The main difficulties explored are Plantinga’s problem of double identification, Pruss’ multiple attributes problem, and Schmitt’s co-specificity problem. In more recent years, defenders of the doctrine have offered a way out of these problems by interpreting it in light of a truthmaker account of predication. This paper analyzes this recent defense, among others, and attempts to show that this new interpretation of divine simplicity still has problems which undermine the plausibility of the doctrine.
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Bradley, Cody M.
(2016)
"Difficulties of Simplicity,"
Quaerens Deum: The Liberty Undergraduate Journal for Philosophy of Religion: Vol. 2:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/lujpr/vol2/iss1/2