Arguing about gods /

Examines contemporary arguments for and against the existence of God with conclusions supported by detailed analyses of contemporary arguments, as well as by the development of a theory about the purpose of arguments, and the criteria that should be used in judging whether or not an argument is succ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oppy, Graham, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Temas:
God > Proof.
Religion > Philosophy.
Dieu > Existence.
Religion > Philosophie.
RELIGION > General.
God > Proof
Religion > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary considerations
  • Arguments about the existence of monotheistic gods
  • Arguements
  • Some considerations about agnosticism
  • Parallel cases for 'alternative' deities
  • Ontological arguments
  • My 'general objection' reconsidered
  • Mereological ontological arguments
  • Gödel's ontological argument
  • On that than which no worse can be conceived
  • Concluding remarks
  • Cosmological arguments
  • Some initial considerations
  • Aquinas' first three ways
  • Descartes' causal argument
  • Leibniz's argument
  • Meyer and the axiom of choice
  • Koons and contingency
  • Gale, Pruss, and 'weak' sufficient reason
  • Craig and the Kalām arguments
  • Smith's atheological cosmological arguments
  • Teleological arguments
  • Biological design : Paley
  • Biological design : Behe
  • Cosmic fine-tuning
  • Hume's criticisms of arguments for design
  • Concluding remarks
  • Pascal's wager
  • The argument
  • Some objections to the argument
  • Objections involving infinity
  • Modified wagers
  • Concluding remarks
  • Arguments from evil
  • Preliminary considerations
  • 'Logical' arguments from evil
  • Evidential arguments from evil / co-written with Michael J. Almeida
  • The problem of heaven / co-written with Yujin Nagasawa and Nick Trakakis
  • Concluding remarks
  • Other arguments
  • Arguments from authority
  • Arguments from religious experience
  • Arguments from morality
  • Arguments from miracles
  • Arguments from consciousness
  • Arguments from puzzling phenomena
  • Concluding remarks
  • Clifford
  • James
  • Concluding remarks.

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