Arguing about gods / Graham Oppy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oppy, Graham, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God--Proof.

God.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 449 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, Graham Oppy examines arguments for and against the existence of God. He shows that none of these arguments is powerful enough to change the minds of reasonable participants in debates on the question of the existence of God. His conclusion is supported by detailed analyses of the 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 arguments are successful. Oppy discusses the work of a wide array of philosophers, including Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Kant, Hume and, more recently, Plantinga, Dembski, White, Dawkins, Bergman, Gale and Pruss.

Contents:

Preliminary considerations

Arguments about the existence of monotheistic gods

Arguments

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

Pascal's wager

The argument

Some objections to the argument

Objections involving infinity

Modified wagers

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

Other arguments

Arguments from authority

Arguments from religious experience

Arguments from morality

Arguments from miracles

Arguments from consciousness

Arguments from puzzling phenomena

Clifford

James

Concluding remarks.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-443) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-16915-1

1-280-70366-0

0-511-24632-3

0-511-24699-4

0-511-24484-3

0-511-31858-8

0-511-49897-7

0-511-24559-9

OCLC:

252531359