319 research outputs found
Can we Describe Possible Circumstances in which we would have
This paper investigates the question whether we could have reason to believe that time is two-dimensional. I connect discussion of this question to discussion of the question whether we could have reason to believe that there has been a global time freeze
Professor William Craig’s Criticisms of Critiques of Kalam Cosmological Arguments By Paul Davies, Stephen Hawking, and Adolf Grunbaum
Kalam cosmological arguments have recently been the subject of criticisms, at least inter alia, by physicists---Paul Davies, Stephen Hawking---and philosophers of science---Adolf Grunbaum. In a series of recent articles, William Craig has attempted to show that these criticisms are “superficial, iII-conceived, and based on misunderstanding.” I argue that, while some of the discussion of Davies and Hawking is not philosophically sophisticated, the points raised by Davies, Hawking and Grunbaum do suffice to undermine the dialectical efficacy of kalam cosmological arguments
Prospects for Successful Proofs of Theism or Atheism
This paper is an English version of the paper that was published in German under the title: "Ăśber die Aussichten erfolgreicher Beweise fĂĽr Theismus oder Atheismus". My English paper was translated into German by Gabriele Schlegel.
The aim of this paper is to examine the prospects for proofs or successful arguments for the existence or non-existence of God
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