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Dawkins’“ultimate Boeing 747″ argument
In his recent best seller “The God Delusion”, Richard Dawkins seems to understand his “ultimate Boeing 747 argument” (henceforth, the “UBA”) as an argument against God’s existence. I think, however,...
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Peter van Inwagen on Clifford’s Principle
While preparing for the philosophy of religion course I’m teach this summer, I just came across Peter van Inwagen’s essay “Quam Dilecta”. The essay appears in God and the Philosophers (1994, Thomas...
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Plantinga on Whether Belief that God Exists is Properly Basic
Alvin Plantinga argues for the following two claims (Warranted Christian Belief, 186-190): (1) If God exists, then basic belief that God exists is probably properly basic. (2) If God does not exists,...
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The Argument from Error
(surely this has already been thought by someone else, if so, excuse it) In the Meditations Descartes says “if it were repugnant to the goodness of Deity to have created me subject to constant...
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Religion and Problems of Scope
Certain theistic stories seem to have some problems of scope. Melville, in his “Moby Dick” (ch.10) presents one of them. “What is worship? –to do the will of God- that is worship. And what is the will...
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An Argument for Counterpart Theory
[I have no idea if the following is at all novel or plausible. Any feedback would be sweet!] Here’s a puzzle. David Lewis (1986) has argued for the following thesis: L. Self-identity is not...
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