Cosmological arguments

Noûs 43 (1):31-48 (2009)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This paper provides a taxonomy of cosmological arguments and givesgeneral reasons for thinking that arguments that belong to a given category do not succeed.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1111/j.1468-0068.2008.01694.x

Other Versions

reprint Oppy, Graham (2017) "The Ontological Arguments". In Borchert, Donald M., Philosophy: Religion, pp. 51-64: Macmillan Reference (2017)

Links

PhilArchive

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Cosmological Arguments.Michael Almeida - 2018 - Cambridge University Press.
Kalām cosmological arguments: Reply to professor Craig.Graham Oppy - 1995 - Sophia 34 (2):15-29.
Are cosmological arguments good arguments?Bruce R. Reichenbach - 2022 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 92 (3):129-145.
Branching actualism and cosmological arguments.Joseph C. Schmid & Alex Malpass - 2023 - Philosophical Studies 180 (7):1951-1973.
On Herman Philipse’s Attempt to Write Off Cosmological Arguments.Emanuel Rutten - 2013 - Philo 16 (1):77-94.
Time, Successive Addition, and Kalam Cosmological Arguments.Graham Oppy - 2001 - Philosophia Christi 3 (1):181-192.
A Note on Cosmological Arguments.James L. Hudson - 1977 - Philosophy Research Archives 3:696-701.
The cosmological arguments.Donald R. Burrill - 1967 - Garden City, N.Y.,: Anchor Books.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-02-05

Downloads
2,203 (#4,900)

6 months
182 (#18,216)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Graham Oppy
Monash University

Citations of this work

Foundational Grounding and the Argument from Contingency.Kenneth L. Pearce - 2017 - Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 8.
A New Argument for a Necessary Being.Joshua Rasmussen - 2011 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89 (2):351-356.
Cosmological Arguments from Contingency.Joshua Rasmussen - 2010 - Philosophy Compass 5 (9):806-819.
Arguments for the existence of God.Graham Oppy - 2012 - Oxford Bibliographies Online.

View all 9 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

Free will.Timothy O'Connor & Christopher Evan Franklin - 2018 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
A new look at the cosmological argument.Robert C. Koons - 1997 - American Philosophical Quarterly 34 (2):193 - 211.
A new cosmological argument.Richard M. Gale & Alexander R. Pruss - 1999 - Religious Studies 35 (4):461-476.
Agent Causation.Timothy O'Connor - 1982 - In Gary Watson (ed.), Free will. New York: Oxford University Press.

View all 14 references / Add more references