Cosmological Arguments
Cosmological Arguments
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Discusses the structure, content, and evaluation of cosmological arguments by investigating their essential features, and positing that their traditional features of appeal to change, causation, contigency, or objective becoming in the world are not significant in their formulation.
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Cosmological Arguments by Michael Almeida
The Element discusses the structure, content, and evaluation of cosmological arguments. The introductory section 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. Sections 1-3 present a critical discussion of traditional Thomistic, Kalam, and Leibnizian cosmological arguments, noting various advantages and disadvantages of these approaches. Section 4 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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781108456920 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108456928 |
| Title | Cosmological Arguments |
| Author | Michael Almeida |
| Series | Elements In The Philosophy Of Religion |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2018-08-23 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |