But Sarah’s logic was exquisite—far more compelling than the cosmological argument. ... he found that “spontaneous excursions into philosophy” were common from the ages of 3 to 7.

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.

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.

Muslim philosophers also challenged western beliefs, about for example the Christian understanding of God as triune while the awareness of the riches of Islamic philosophy is more common among ...

IN his article in NATURE of May 8, Dr. H. Dingle criticizes my letter to NATURE of February 20, on the grounds that it departs from the Galilean scientific method of building up theory to fit ...

The Books of The Times review on Jan. 21, about “36 Arguments for the Existence of God,” a novel by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, misstated the name of the Hasidic community in the Hudson River ...