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1 online resource |
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Introduction / Jerry L. Walls and Trent Dougherty -- pt. 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, bagueness, 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 |
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pt. 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 inductin : 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 |
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pt. 3. Moral arguments. Moral arguments : an abductive moral argument for God / David Baggett -- The argument from evil : felix culpa! / Hud Hudson |
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pt. 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 |
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pt. 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 |
| Summary |
'Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God' expands Alvin Plantinga's seminal article 'Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Arguments.' Each of Plantinga's original suggestions is developed here by a wide variety of accomplished scholars. This collection both presents ground-breaking research and lays the foundations for research projects for years to come |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 9, 2018) |
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Plantinga, Alvin.
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| SUBJECT |
Plantinga, Alvin fast |
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Faith.
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God -- Proof.
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faith.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Faith
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God -- Proof
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Electronic book
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Walls, Jerry L., editor.
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Dougherty, Trent, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780190842239 |
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0190842237 |
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9780190874445 |
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0190874449 |
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