Oppy, Graham Robert. creator text bibliography nyu New York Cambridge University Press c2006 2006 monographic eng

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xix, 449 p. ; 24 cm. Preliminary considerations -- Arguments about the existence of monotheistic gods -- Arguements -- Some considerations about agnosticism -- Parallel cases for 'alternative' deities -- Ontological arguments -- My 'general objection' reconsidered -- Mereological ontological arguments -- Gd̲el's ontological argument -- On that than which no worse can be conceived -- Concluding remarks -- Cosmological arguments -- Some initial considerations -- Aquinas' first three ways -- Descartes' causal argument -- Leibniz's argument -- Meyer and the axiom of choice -- Koons and contingency -- Gale, Pruss, and 'weak' sufficient reason -- Craig and the Kal am arguments -- Smith's atheological cosmological arguments -- Teleological arguments -- Biological design : Paley -- Biological design : Behe -- Cosmic fine-tuning -- Hume's criticisms of arguments for design -- Concluding remarks -- Pascal's wager -- The argument -- Some objections to the argument -- Objections involving infinity -- Modified wagers -- Concluding remarks -- Arguments from evil -- Preliminary considerations -- 'Logical' arguments from evil -- Evidential arguments from evil / co-written with Michael J. Almeida -- The problem of heaven / co-written with Yujin Nagasawa and Nick Trakakis -- Concluding remarks -- Other arguments -- Arguments from authority -- Arguments from religious experience -- Arguments from morality -- Arguments from miracles -- Arguments from consciousness -- Arguments from puzzling phenomena -- Concluding remarks -- Clifford -- James -- Concluding remarks. by Graham Oppy. Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-443) and index. God Proof BT103 .O67 2006 212.1 Opp 2006 0521863864 (hardback) 9780521863865 (hardback) 2005037369 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip066/2005037369.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0633/2005037369-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0733/2005037369-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip066/2005037369.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0633/2005037369-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0733/2005037369-b.html DLC 180925 20250804100952.0 14207773