Superior Beings If They Exist How Would We Know? Game-Theoretic Implications of Omniscience, Omnipotence, Immortality, and Incomprehensibility /

• Main Author: Brams, Steven J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Game theory.; Popular works.; Economic theory.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Popular Science, general.; Philosophy, general.

The central question posed in this book is: If there existed a superior being who possessed the supernatural qualities of omniscience, omnipotence, immortality, and incomprehensibility, how would he/she act differently from us? The mathematical theory of games is used to define each of these qualiti...

Table of Contents:

• The Rationality of Belief in a Superior Being
• Omniscience and Partial Omniscience
• The Paradox of Omniscience and the Theory of Moves
• Omnipotence: Moving and Staying Power
• Immortality and Incomprehensibility
• Superior Beings: They May Be Undecidable.