This research project develops out of the previous Templeton Project 'Pavel Tichý on Individuals, Roles, and God'(https://www.tichyproject.com/), awarded in 2020 by the Ian Ramsey Centre at the University of Oxford, whose PI is PhDr Daniela Vacek (born Glavaničova). Starting from the results achieved by the above mentioned project in applying the notions of individuals, individual roles, and individual concepts (as framed within the framework of Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL) devised by Czechoslovak philosopher and logician Pavel Tichý) to the analysis of fictional and religious discourse, the present project aims to shed light on the role modality plays in religious contexts. In order to address this issue in a comprehensive and perspicuous way, the project will try to account for the meaning and use of modal claims about divinity from the perspective of different contemporary semantic theories, in particular, descriptivist and non-descriptivist theories. As a result, our goal will be to try to understand what we are doing when we attribute modal features to divinity, such as the necessary existence to God, by analysing the function of the expressions and locutions we use in doing so.

It should also be noted that the project fits within the current strategic priorities of John Templeton Foundation, by trying to answer questions related to the rational status of religious experience within the area of 'Reason and Faith.'