1929 – 2010
Jordan Howard Sobel was a Canadian analytic philosopher at the University of Toronto best known for his rigorous formal analysis of theistic arguments. His magnum opus, Logic and Theism (2004), offers a comprehensive logical examination of arguments for and against God's existence. He also made significant contributions to deontic logic, decision theory, and the formal analysis of conditional obligations.
Authored Logic and Theism (2004), a landmark formal assessment of ontological, cosmological, and design arguments
Advanced deontic logic, particularly temporal and conditional aspects of obligation
Contributed to decision theory, including analysis of Newcomb's problem
Developed formal critiques of Gödel's ontological argument
Applied modal logic rigorously to problems in philosophy of religion