Arguing about gods /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.