Omnirationality

Res Philosophica 90 (1):1-21 (2013)
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Abstract

God is omnirational: whenever he does anything, he does it for all and only the unexcluded reasons that favor the action, and he always acts for reasons. Thisdoctrine has two unexpected consequences: it gives an account of why it is that unification is a genuine form of scientific explanation, and it answers the question of when the occurrence of E after a petitionary prayer for E is an answer to the prayer

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Alexander R. Pruss
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Actions, Reasons, and Causes.Donald Davidson - 1963 - Journal of Philosophy 60 (23):685.
Practical reason and norms.Joseph Raz - 1975 - London: Hutchinson.
On Action.Carl Ginet - 1990 - Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Explanatory unification.Philip Kitcher - 1981 - Philosophy of Science 48 (4):507-531.

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