This book includes arguments for and against belief in God. The arguments for the belief are analyzed in the first six chapters and include ontological arguments from Anselm through Gödel; the cosmological arguments of Aquinas and Leibniz; and arguments from evidence for design and miracles. The next two chapters consider arguments against belief. The last chapter examines Pascalian arguments for and against belief in God. This book is a valuable resource for philosophers of religion and theologians and interests logicians and mathematicians as well.
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"This book addresses philosophers of religion and theologians; it will also interest logicians and mathematicians." Science and Theology News
"I'm often asked to recommend books on philosophy of religion from a skeptical point of view, and Mackie's The Miracle of Theism has been the only thing I could wholeheartedly endorse. Sobel's book would give me a second option. It's the best thing of its kind since Mackie's book, and in many respects, it's better than The Miracle of Theism." Robert C. Koons, University of Texas, Austin
"I'm often asked to recommend books on philosophy of religion from a skeptical point of view, and Mackie's The Miracle of Theism has been the only thing I could wholeheartedly endorse. Sobel's book would give me a second option. It's the best thing of its kind since Mackie's book, and in many respects, it's better than The Miracle of Theism." Robert C. Koons, University of Texas, Austin
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This is a wide-ranging book about arguments for and against belief in God. The arguments for the belief are analyzed in the first six chapters and include ontological arguments from Anselm through Gödel, the cosmological arguments of Aquinas and Leibniz, and arguments from evidence for design and miracles. The next two chapters consider arguments against belief. The last chapter examines Pascalian arguments for and against belief in God. This book will be a valuable resource for philosophers of religion and theologians and will interest logicians and mathematicians as well.
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A time-line of the currently relevant skeptical books on the philosophy of religion that, at the time of their publication, became the skeptical book most fruitful to study would begin in 1975 with William Rowe's THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT, if the time-line included both specialized books and comprehensive books. In the interests of brevity and relevance to Sobel's book, a time-line only of the comprehensive books can be described. In 1982, John Mackie's book, THE MIRACLE OF THEISM, became the comprehensive, skeptical book most fruitful to study. In 1990 Michael Martin's comprehensive book, ATHEISM, took prime of place, followed almost immediately in 1991 by Richard Gale's ON THE EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF GOD. In 2004 a new, comprehensive book became the most important of the current skeptical treatises, Howard Sobel's LOGIC AND THEISM. A reader of this book may justifiably finish it with the belief there is a high probability Sobel's book will retain this position for many years to come.
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This book would be about God, that is, it is about God, supposing This One exists. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
universal transworld depravity, creatable world, everlasting omniscience, infinite substance cannot, transworld depraved, essential omnipotent, omnipotence simpliciter, atheistic demonstrations, features free agents, maximal world segment, many cosmoi, depraved relative, depravity relative, essential omnipotence, other invisible agents, sentential modal logic, maximally great being, objective expected value, modal collapse, cumulative confirmation, incremental confirmations, necessity derivation, conditional credences, everlasting omniscient, supremely perfect being Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Def Pos, Def Ess, Santa Claus, Leibniz's Law, Charles Hartshorne, David Hume, Proposition One, Alvin Plantinga, First Way, God Bel, Separate Existence, Richard Price, The Trinity, Buckingham Palace, Ontologischer Beweis, Anderson's Axiom, Clark Kent, Dana Scott, David Lewis, Hume's Dialogues, John Findlay, Jumping Jack, New York, Peter Geach, Richard Jeffrey New!
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This book would be about God, that is, it is about God, supposing This One exists. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
universal transworld depravity, creatable world, everlasting omniscience, infinite substance cannot, transworld depraved, essential omnipotent, omnipotence simpliciter, atheistic demonstrations, features free agents, maximal world segment, many cosmoi, depraved relative, depravity relative, essential omnipotence, other invisible agents, sentential modal logic, maximally great being, objective expected value, modal collapse, cumulative confirmation, incremental confirmations, necessity derivation, conditional credences, everlasting omniscient, supremely perfect being Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Def Pos, Def Ess, Santa Claus, Leibniz's Law, Charles Hartshorne, David Hume, Proposition One, Alvin Plantinga, First Way, God Bel, Separate Existence, Richard Price, The Trinity, Buckingham Palace, Ontologischer Beweis, Anderson's Axiom, Clark Kent, Dana Scott, David Lewis, Hume's Dialogues, John Findlay, Jumping Jack, New York, Peter Geach, Richard Jeffrey New!
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- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Penguin Classics) by David Hume on 5 pages
- The Evidential Argument from Evil (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion) by Daniel Howard-Snyder on 4 pages
- The Oxford English Dictionary Additions: 3 Volume Set by Oxford University Press on page 3, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy (The Schocken Bible, Volume 1) by Everett Fox in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Philosophy and Faith: A Philosophy of Religion Reader by David Shatz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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