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Women in Western Political Thought By Susan Moller Okin Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980, 371 pp., £13.60, £2.50 paper

has a lot to say on why, if we invoke God as the expiations, we are not driven beyond God to find another explanans, but very little to say about why there is need to invoke God in the first place beyond saying that we expect all things to have explanations (p. 287). There is space to mention one further matter. In connection with a version of the teleological argument Swinburne considers the objection that since human beings are necessarily the product of physical order it is not surprising that they perceive a physically ordered universe. Swinburne counters that the existence of order requires explanation even though we could not perceive anything else. But it is important to avoid what Hume called a partiality in our own favour. A priori there is the possibility of an infinite series of universes some of which exhibit different physical laws of varying degrees of orderliness. The question is, why, out of this infinite series of possibilities, is the actual world a world of order? If as Swinburne says the teleologist's starting point is that order rather than disorder is there then a priori there is nothing remarkable about this since it just happens that in the infinite sequence of possibilities this possibility has been arrived at. Paul Helm