The Existence of God : A Philosophical Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780415465885 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 208 str.

Yujin Nagasawa

Opis

Does God exist? What are the various arguments that seek to prove the existence of God? Can atheists refute these arguments? The Existence of God: A Philosophical Introduction assesses classical and contemporary arguments concerning the existence of God: The ontological argument, introducing the nature of existence, possible worlds, parody objections, and the evolutionary origin of the concept of God. The cosmological argument, discussing metaphysical paradoxes of infinity, scientific models of the universe, and philosophers' discussions about ultimate reality and the meaning of life. The design argument, addressing Aquinas's Fifth Way, Darwin's theory of evolution, the concept of irreducible complexity, and the current controversy over intelligent design and school education

Spis treści

Preface  Part 1: An Armchair Proof of the Existence of God  1. Gödel’s Secret Project  2. Anselm’s Discovery  3. Descartes’s Ontological Argument  4. Objections to the Ontological Argument  5. Hartshorne’s Discovery  6. Objections to the Modal Ontological Argument  7. Gödel’s Ontological Argument  Part 2: ‘Follow the Evidence Wherever it Leads’: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design  8. Professor Flew’s Conversion  9. Battles Over Evolution  10. Intelligent Design  11. History of the Design Argument  12. Objections to the Design Argument  13. The Theory of Evolution  14. Judge Jones’s Verdict on Intelligent Design  Part 3: The Big Bang, Infinity, and the Meaning of Life  15. The Big Bang  16. Infinity  17. History of the Cosmological Argument  18. The Kalām Cosmological Argument  19. Objections to the Kalām Cosmological Argument  20. Infinity and the Meaning of Life  Conclusion: Additional Arguments for and against the Existence of God.  Further Reading.  Bibliography.  Index

O autorze

Yujin Nagasawa is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is author of God and Phenomenal Consciousness (2008), and editor/co-editor of There’s Something About Mary: Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument (2004), New Waves in Philosophy of Religion (2008) and Scientific Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion (2012).