The Contingency of Necessity: Reason and God as Matters of Fact

Focusing on the central striking claim that all necessity is consequent. Tritten engages with ancient and contemporary philosophers including Quentin Meillassoux, Richard Kearney, Friedrich Schelling, 'Emile Boutroux and Markus Gabriel. He argues that even reason and God, while necessary according to essence, are contingent in existence.

Author: Tyler Tritten
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 05/13/2019
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781474428200
ISBN10: 1474428207
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Metaphysics
- Religion | Philosophy
- Philosophy | Religious

About the Author

Tyler Tritten is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Gonzaga University. He received his Ph.D. from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium in 2012 and later spent two years (2015-2016) as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Theology at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. His publications focus on speculative philosophy in areas of metaphysics, philosophy of religion, non-prescriptive ethics and the history of philosophy. He is the author of Beyond Presence: The Late F. W. J. Schelling's Criticism of Metaphysics (De Gruyter, 2012) and co-editor of a special issue of the journal Angelaki: Nature, Speculation and the Return to Schelling (Vol. 21.4, 2017).