Yishai Cohen's Excellent Defense of Morriston's "Endless Future" Objection to Craig's Kalam Argument
Cohen, Yishai. "Endless Future: A Persistent Thorn in the Kalam Cosmological Argument", Philosophical Papers 44:2 (2015), pp. 165-187.
A penultimate draft of the paper can be found here.
Also worthy of note is that the paper also provides a nice challenge to Koons' recent defense of the kalam argument based on a version of the Grim Reaper paradox.
P.S., his other papers in philosophy of religion are also well worth reading (e.g., his paper on the problem of the counterfactuals of divine freedom, and his paper on skeptical theism). Both can be found here.
A penultimate draft of the paper can be found here.
Also worthy of note is that the paper also provides a nice challenge to Koons' recent defense of the kalam argument based on a version of the Grim Reaper paradox.
P.S., his other papers in philosophy of religion are also well worth reading (e.g., his paper on the problem of the counterfactuals of divine freedom, and his paper on skeptical theism). Both can be found here.
Kahane's Fantastic New Paper on the Axiological Implications of Theism
Kahane, Guy. "If There is a Hole, It is not God-Shaped", in Kraay (ed.). The Axiological Implications of Theism (forthcoming). The penultimate draft can be found here.
Absolutely essential reading.
Absolutely essential reading.
Deem's New Critique of Plantinga's and Stich's Evolutionary Arguments Against Cognitive Reliability
Deem, Michael J. "A Flaw in the Stich-Plantinga Challenge to Evolutionary Reliabilism", Analysis (forthcoming).
The penultimate draft can be found here.
The penultimate draft can be found here.
Intriguing New Critique of Theistic Platonism
Baras, Dan. "A Reliability Challenge to Theistic Platonism", Analysis (2017) doi: 10.1093/analys/anx089.
Here's the abstract:
Many philosophers believe that when a theory is committed to an apparently unexplainable massive correlation, that fact counts significantly against the theory. Philosophical theories that imply that we have knowledge of non-causal mind-independent facts are especially prone to this objection. Prominent examples of such theories are mathematical Platonism, robust normative realism and modal realism. It is sometimes thought that theists can easily respond to this sort of challenge and that theism therefore has an epistemic advantage over atheism. In this paper, I will argue that, contrary to widespread thought, some versions of theism only push the challenge one step further and thus are in no better position than atheism.The penultimate draft can be found here.
Grinbaum's New Critique of the Argument from the Effectiveness of Mathematics
In the 1960s, Eugene Wegner argued that the effectiveness of mathematics to explain and describe the natural world is a philosophical problem. Since then, a number of theists have appealed to Wegner's work as the basis for a theistic argument.
In a new paper ("The Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Physics of the Unknown", Synthese. (2017). doi:10.1007/s11229-017-1490-0), Alexei Grinbaum offers a reply to Wegner's original argument. The paper can be found here.
In a new paper ("The Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Physics of the Unknown", Synthese. (2017). doi:10.1007/s11229-017-1490-0), Alexei Grinbaum offers a reply to Wegner's original argument. The paper can be found here.
My Debate with Michael Rota on God's Existence
A video of the debate can be found here.
(Apologies about the $2 rental fee. I hold no rights to the video, and I make no profit from it. In fact, I'd have to pay for it to watch it!)
(Apologies about the $2 rental fee. I hold no rights to the video, and I make no profit from it. In fact, I'd have to pay for it to watch it!)
My Podcast Interview on Real Atheology
The interview covers theism's problem of creation ex nihilo and other topics. Those interested can listen here at Real Atheology. Relevant blog posts can be found here.
Many thanks to Justin Schieber and Ben Watkins for having me on RA! It's an excellent podcast. I highly recommend it to readers of this blog who are interested in valuable conversations about contemporary philosophy of religion.
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