A. Inductive arguments – cosmological:Inductive proofs; the concept of ‘a posteriori’.Cosmological argument: St Thomas Aquinas’ first Three Ways - (motion or ...

Dialogue: Cosmological Arguments for the Existence of God: An Introduction, Edition 5 Dialogue: Proof and Probability in Arguing for God’s Existence, Edition 9 ...

Associate Professor of Philosophy Ian Church has concluded a three-year project aiming to establish experimental philosophy of religion as a new, ... the cosmological argument, ...

The Cosmological Argument. The idea of a cosmological argument is to move from certain known effects to God as their cause. ... Excerpted from "What Philosophy Can Do" by Gary Gutting.

After the birth of Islam in the 7th Century, a flourishing medieval Muslim philosophy emerged; Avicenna, Al Ghazali, Averroes, just to name a few, brought the use of reason into faith. Their field of ...

Good arguments needn’t be proofs. The literature on the cosmological argument is vast. It’s an open question whether the crucial premises are true or not. So it isn’t proof of God’s existence.