Incommensurability, incomparability, and rational world-choice

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 75 (1):13-25 (2014)
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Abstract

Klaas J. Kraay argues that the rational choice model for divine creation—according to which God chooses to actualize one world among possible alternatives based on its axiological properties—cannot succeed given failures of comparability across possible worlds. I argue that failure of comparability across worlds would not undermine the rationality of choosing one world to create among possible alternatives

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