Thought: A Journal of Philosophy

Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2018

Andrew Tedder, Guillermo Badia
Pages 119-121

Currying Omnipotence
A Reply to Beall and Cotnoir

Beall and Cotnoir (2017) argue that theists may accept the claim that God’s omnipotence is fully unrestricted if they also adopt a suitable nonclassical logic. Their primary focus is on the infamous Stone problem (i.e., whether God can create a stone too heavy for God to lift). We show how unrestricted omnipotence generates Curry-like paradoxes. The upshot is that Beall and Cotnoir only provide a solution to one version of the Stone problem, but that unrestricted omnipotence generates other problems which they do not adequately address.