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On God and the Beginning of the Universe: An Evaluation of Recent Discussions
Religions, 2023 Philosophical analysis is of vital importance for addressing the controversies in science and theology. This article evaluates the analyses concerning God and the beginning of the universe offered by a number of philosophers.
Andrew Ter Ern Loke
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Modalne argumenty teistyczne (Modal Theistic Arguments) [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2011 The aim of Oppy’s paper is to provide a general ground for rejecting all kinds of modal theistic arguments. The author claims that all such arguments are questionbegging – before proving the existence of God (defined as a being which exists in every ...
Graham Oppy
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Ultimate Explanation and Necessary Being: Describing and Analyzing Timothy O'Connor’s View Point [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2018 Usually, an explanation regarded as the answer to Why questions and therefore the ultimate explanation is to be the answer to the question of “why there is anything rather than nothing?”.
Roozbeh Zare, Seyyed Hassan Hoseinie
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Plantinga and Aquinas on the Viability of the ‘Third Way’
Religions, 2023 This article deals with Alvin Plantinga’s arguments against St. Thomas Aquinas’s third way to show that God exists. Although attacks on this argument have come from Christians and non-Christians, my contention is that these rebuttals of the third way ...
Bernard James Mauser
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Faith and Philosophy, 1999 Final Published Version: Faith and Philosophy 16, 1999, 378 ...
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On ‘A new cosmological argument’
Religious Studies, 2000 Richard Gale and Alexander Pruss contend that their ‘new cosmological argument’ is an improvement over familiar cosmological arguments because it relies upon a weaker version of the Principle of Sufficient Reason than that used in those more familiar arguments.
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Probability in Fine-Tuning Design Arguments [PDF]
, 2007 This paper examines probabilistic versions of the fine-tuning argument for design (FTA), with an emphasis on the interpretation of the probability statements involved in such arguments. Three categories of probability are considered: physical, epistemic,
Staley, Kent, Kent W. Staley
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Craig's Contradictory Kalam: Trouble at the Moment of Creation
TheoLogica, 2020 William Lane Craig’s much-discussed kalam cosmological argument for God’s existence is intended to provide support for a particular theistic explanation of the origin of the universe.
Erik Wielenberg
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Anthropic Reasoning and the Contemporary Design Argument in Astrophysics: A Reply to Robert Klee [PDF]
, 2003 In a recent study of astrophysical “fine-tunings” (or “coincidences”), Robert Klee critically assesses the support that such astrophysical evidence might be thought to lend to the design argument (i.e., the argument that our universe has been designed by
Walker, Mark, Cirkovic, Milan M.
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