The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz
Author: William L. Craig
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2001-10-13
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1579107877
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The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz
The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz
Author: William Lane Craig
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1980-06-18
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 134904993X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Critical Assessment of Contemporary Cosmological Arguments
Author: Emanuel Rutten
Publisher:
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Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9081960806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ever since Plato, philosophers have developed rational arguments for the existence of God. In the last decades the philosophical interest in these arguments has grown again significantly. In this book cosmological arguments are investigated. A cosmological argument derives the existence of God from the fact that there exist caused things. In the first part of this book the author argues that these arguments show that it is plausible that the cosmos was brought about by a necessarily existing conscious, free being. However, as is shown as well, it does not follow that this being is also the first cause of the whole of reality, something typically said of God. In the second part of the book a new argument for the existence of a first cause is presented, based on the premises of atomism and causalism. Subsequently, the author proposes a new modal-epistemic argument for the existence of a conscious, free being who is the first cause of reality. Objections to both new arguments are evaluated and refuted. The book concludes with the observation that these arguments can be combined with cosmological arguments in order to arrive at a renewed case for theism.
Cosmological Arguments
Author: Michael Almeida
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-07-31
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781108456920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book discusses the structure, content, and evaluation of cosmological arguments. The introductory chapter investigates features essential to cosmological arguments. Traditionally, cosmological arguments are distinguished by their appeal to change, causation, contingency or objective becoming in the world. But none of these is in fact essential to the formulation of cosmological arguments. Chapters I - III present a critical discussion of traditional Thomistic, Kalam, and Leibnizian cosmological arguments, noting various advantages and disadvantages of these approaches. Chapter IV offers an entirely new approach to the cosmological argument-the approach of theistic modal realism. The proper explananda of cosmological arguments on this approach is not change, causation, contingency or objective becoming in the world. The proper explananda is the totality of metaphysical reality-all actualia and all possibilia. The result is the most compelling and least objectionable version of the cosmological argument.
The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz
Author: Nicholas Jolley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780521367691
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Contending with Christianity's Critics
Author: Paul Copan
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1433668459
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contending with Christianity’s Critics is book two in a series on modern Christian apologetics that began with the popular Passionate Conviction. This second installment, featuring writings from eighteen respected apologists such as Gary Habermas and Ben Witherington, addresses challenges from noted New Atheists like Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) and other contemporary critics of Christianity concerning belief in God, the historical Jesus, and Christianity’s doctrinal coherence. Contending with Christianity's Critics and Passionate Conviction are the result of national apologetics conferences sponsored by the Evangelical Philosophical Society (www.epsociety.org).
Just the Arguments
Author: Michael Bruce
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-08-24
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 1444344412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Does the existence of evil call into doubt the existence of God? Show me the argument. Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting through dense philosophical prose, 100 famous and influential arguments are presented in their essence, with premises, conclusions and logical form plainly identified. Key quotations provide a sense of style and approach. Just the Arguments is an invaluable one-stop argument shop. A concise, formally structured summation of 100 of the most important arguments in Western philosophy The first book of its kind to present the most important and influential philosophical arguments in a clear premise/conclusion format, the language that philosophers use and students are expected to know Offers succinct expositions of key philosophical arguments without bogging them down in commentary Translates difficult texts to core arguments Designed to provides a quick and compact reference to everything from Aquinas’ “Five Ways” to prove the existence of God, to the metaphysical possibilities of a zombie world
The Ultimate Why Question
Author: John F. Wippel
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2011-06-08
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0813218632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume gathers studies by prominent scholars and philosophers about the question how have major figures from the history of philosophy, and some contemporary philosophers, addressed "the ultimate why question": why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
The Principle of Sufficient Reason
Author: Alexander R. Pruss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-03-20
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1139455095
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) says that all contingent facts must have explanation. In this 2006 volume, which was the first on the topic in the English language in nearly half a century, Alexander Pruss examines the substantive philosophical issues raised by the Principle Reason. Discussing various forms of the PSR and selected historical episodes, from Parmenides, Leibnez, and Hume, Pruss defends the claim that every true contingent proposition must have an explanation against major objections, including Hume's imaginability argument and Peter van Inwagen's argument that the PSR entails modal fatalism. Pruss also provides a number of positive arguments for the PSR, based on considerations as different as the metaphysics of existence, counterfactuals and modality, negative explanations, and the everyday applicability of the PSR. Moreover, Pruss shows how the PSR would advance the discussion in a number of disparate fields, including meta-ethics and the philosophy of mathematics.
