Two dozen (or so) arguments for God the Plantinga project

"Thirty years ago, Alvin Plantinga gave a lecture called "Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Arguments," which served as an underground inspiration for two generations of scholars and students. In it, he proposed a number of novel and creative arguments for the existence of God which have yet...

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Otros Autores: Dougherty, Trent, editor (editor), Walls, Jerry L., editor
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY: Oxford University Press [2018]
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  • Introduction / Jerry L. Walls and Trent Dougherty
  • Part 1. Half a dozen (or so) dozen ontological (or metaphysical) arguments
  • The argument from intentionality (or aboutness) : propositions supernaturalized / Lorraine Juliano Keller
  • The argument from collections / Christopher Menzel
  • The argument from (natural) numbers / Tyron Goldschmidt
  • The argument from counterfactuals : counterfactuals, vagueness, and God / Alexander R. Pruss
  • The argument from physical constants : the fine-tuning for discoverability / Robin Collins
  • The naïve teleological argument : an argument from design for ordinary people / C. Stephen Evans
  • The ontological argument : patching Plantinga's ontological argument by making the Murdoch move / Elizabeth D. Burns
  • Why is there anything at all? / Joshua Rasmussen and Christopher Gregory Weaver.
  • Part 2. Half a dozen epistemological arguments
  • The argument from positive epistemic status : evolutionary psychology and the argument from positive epistemic status / Justin L. Barrett
  • The argument from the confluence of proper function and reliability : is God the designer of our cognitive faculties? Evaluating Plantinga's argument / Alexander Arnold
  • The argument from simplicity and the argument from induction : atheistic induction by Boltzmann Brains / Bradley Monton
  • The Putnamian argument (the argument from the rejection of global skepticism) [also, the argument from reference, and the argument from the confluence of proper function and reliability : Putnam's semantic skepticism and the epistemic melt-down of naturalism : how defeat of Putnam's puzzle provides a defeater for Plantinga's self-defeat argument against naturalism / Evan Fales
  • The Putnamian argument, the argument from reference, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein argument from plus and quus : arguments from knowledge, reference, and content / Robert C. Koons.
  • Part 3. Moral arguments
  • Moral arguments : an abductive moral argument for God / David Baggett
  • The argument from evil : felix culpa! / Hud Hudson.
  • Part 4. Other arguments
  • The argument from colors and flavors : the argument from consciousness / Richard Swinburne
  • The argument from love and the argument from the meaning of life : the God of love and the meaning of life / Jerry L. Walls
  • The Mozart argument and the argument from play and enjoyment : the theistic argument from beauty and play / Philip Tallon
  • Arguments from providence and from miracles : of miracles : the state of the art and the uses of history / Timothy McGrew
  • C. S. Lewis's argument from nostalgia : a new argument from desire / Todd Buras and Michael Cantrell
  • The argument from (A) to (Y) : the argument from so many arguments / Ted Poston.
  • Part 5. "Or so" : three more arguments
  • The Kalam cosmological argument / William Lane Craig
  • The argument from possibility / Brian Leftow
  • The necessity of sufficiency : the argument from the incompleteness of nature / Bruce L Gordon
  • Afterword: Trent Dougherty and Alvin Plantinga : an interview on faith and reason
  • Appendix: Plantinga's original "Two dozen (or so) theistic arguments" : lecture notes / by Alvin Plantinga.