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The Teleological and Kalam Cosmological Arguments Revisited.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loke, Andrew.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion Series
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Table of Contents:
  • The Teleological and Kalam Cosmological Arguments Revisited
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • 1: Introducing the Quest for an Explanation
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 A Review of the Discussion
  • 1.3 Problems with Scientism
  • 1.4 Problems with Verificationism
  • 1.5 In Defence of the Possibility of a Priori Metaphysical Knowledge
  • 1.6 Reply to the Evolutionary Objection Against Metaphysical Knowledge
  • 1.7 Reply to Empiricist Objections
  • 1.8 Conclusion and Overview of Following Chapters
  • Bibliography
  • 2: Causation and Laws of Nature
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Defining the Key Terms of the Causal Principle
  • 2.3 Causation, Fundamental Physics, and Laws of Nature
  • 2.4 Considerations of Quantum Indeterminancy
  • Bibliography
  • 3: Arguments for the Causal Principle
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Objection: The Initial State of Reality (ISOR) is the Only Thing That Begins Uncaused
  • 3.3 Against 1.1.1. Brute Fact
  • 3.4 Against 1.1.2. Abstract Entities
  • 3.5 Against 1.1.3.1 S is a Property of x
  • 3.6 Concerning 1.1.3.2.1
  • 3.7 Concerning 1.1.3.2.2. S is a Property of y
  • 3.8 Concerning 1.1.3.2.3. S is a Property of the Circumstances of y
  • 3.8.1 Objection: Current Spatial Considerations Prevent Things from Beginning to Exist Uncaused Now
  • 3.8.2 Objection Based on the Distinction between Different Senses of Beginning to Exist
  • 3.8.3 Objection: Pre-existing Things Such as a Pre-existent Law of Nature Might Prevent Things from Beginning to Exist Uncaused Now
  • 3.8.4 A Second Form of Modus Tollens Argument
  • 3.9 Objection Concerning the Distinction between Could and Would
  • 3.10 Objection: The Causal Principle is Inconsistent with Libertarian Freedom
  • 3.11 Objection Based on Lack of Directionality
  • 3.12 Epistemological Objections
  • 3.13 Conclusion
  • Bibliography.
  • 4: Fine-Tuning and Order of our Universe
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Fine-Tuning and Orderliness
  • 4.2.1 Fine-Tuning
  • 4.2.2 Orderliness
  • 4.2.2.1 Introduction
  • 4.2.2.2 Objection: Human Creation
  • 4.2.2.3 Platonic Objection
  • 4.2.3 Summary
  • 4.3 A Logically Exhaustive List of Categories of Possibilities
  • 4.4 Chance Hypothesis
  • 4.4.1 The Argument from Selection Bias and Chaos
  • 4.4.2 Anthropic Principle
  • 4.4.3 Improbable Event Happens
  • 4.4.4 The Problem of Normalizing Probabilities
  • 4.4.5 Multiple Universes
  • 4.4.5.1 Introducing Various Types of Multiverse Hypothesis
  • 4.4.5.2 Insufficient Evidence for the Atheistic Multiverse Hypothesis
  • 4.4.5.3 Arguments against the Atheistic Multiverse Hypothesis
  • 4.5 Regularity
  • 4.6 Combination of Regularity and Chance
  • 4.7 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • 5: Arguments for a First Cause
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Scientific Issues
  • 5.3 Introducing the Philosophical Arguments Against an Infinite Regress of Causes and Events
  • 5.4 Argument Against Traversing an Actual Infinite
  • 5.5 The Argument from the Viciousness of Dependence Regress
  • 5.6 Can a First Cause Be Avoided by a Causal Loop?
  • 5.7 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • 6: What the First Cause Is
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 The First Cause Is Uncaused, Beginningless, and Initially Changeless
  • 6.3 Transcendent and Immaterial
  • 6.4 The First Cause Has Libertarian Freedom
  • 6.4.1 How Could the First Cause Bring about the First Event from an Initially Changeless State
  • 6.4.2 Should We Call It Libertarian Freedom?
  • 6.4.3 Is the First Event Random?
  • 6.4.4 Libertarian Freedom and Time
  • 6.4.5 Contradiction with Classical Theism
  • 6.5 The First Cause Has Tremendous Power
  • 6.6 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • 7: Ultimate Design
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Against the 'Uncaused' Hypothesis.
  • 7.3 In defence of Design
  • 7.4 Reply to Hume's Classic Objections
  • 7.5 Addressing an Objection to Argument by Exclusion
  • 7.6 Response to Difficulties Concerning Determining the Prior Probability that God Design the Universe
  • 7.7 Reply to Objections Concerning the Range of Explanatory Latitude
  • 7.8 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • 8: Ultimate Designer
  • 8.1 Summary of Important Conclusions from Previous Chapters
  • 8.2 Concerning the God-of-the-Gaps Objection
  • 8.3 Limitations of the KCA-TA and responses
  • 8.4 Significance of the Conclusion of KCA-TA
  • Bibliography
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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