Logic and theism : arguments for and against beliefs in God / Jordan Howard Sobel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sobel, Jordan Howard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God--Proof.

God.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 652 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Logic & Theism

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a wide-ranging 2004 book about arguments for and against beliefs in God. The arguments for the belief are analysed in the first six chapters and include ontological arguments from Anselm to Gödel, the cosmological arguments of Aquinas and Leibniz, and arguments from evidence for design and miracles. The next two chapters consider arguments against belief. The last chapter examines Pascalian arguments for and against belief in God. There are discussions of Cantorian problems for omniscience, of challenges to divine omnipotence, and of the compatibility of everlasting complete knowledge of the world with free-will. There are appendices that present formal proofs in a system for quantified modal logic, a theory of possible worlds, notes on Cantorian set theory, and remarks concerning non-standard hyperreal numbers. This book will be a valuable resource for philosophers of religion and theologians and will interest logicians and mathematicians as well.

Contents:

Part I. Divinity

'GOD' and 'god', and God Part II. Arguments for the Existence of God

Classical ontological arguments

Modern modal ontological arguments

Kurt Go̲del's ontologischer beweis

First causes: "the second way"

Ultimate reasons: Proofs of a contingentia mundi

Look 'round'

Clouds of witnesses

"of miracles" Part III. On Two Parts of the Common Conception

Romancing the stone

God knows (go figure) Part IV

Arguments Against the Existence of God

Atheologies, demonstrative and evidential

Logical problem of evil Part V

Practical Arguments For and Against Theistic Beliefs

Pascalian wagers.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-646) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14681-X

1-280-45830-5

0-511-18561-8

0-511-18478-6

0-511-18742-4

0-511-49798-9

0-511-31354-3

0-511-18649-5

OCLC:

437164393