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Cosmological arguments / Michael Almeida

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Almeida, Michael J.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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1 online resource (99 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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The book discusses the structure, content, and evaluation of cosmological arguments. The introductory chapter investigates features essential to cosmological arguments. Traditionally, cosmological arguments are distinguished by their appeal to change, causation, contingency or objective becoming in the world. But none of these is in fact essential to the formulation of cosmological arguments. Chapters 1-3 present a critical discussion of traditional Thomistic, Kalam, and Leibnizian cosmological arguments, noting various advantages and disadvantages of these approaches. Chapter 4 offers an entirely new approach to the cosmological argument - the approach of theistic modal realism. The proper explananda of cosmological arguments on this approach is not change, causation, contingency or objective becoming in the world. The proper explananda is the totality of metaphysical reality - all actualia and all possibilia. The result is the most compelling and least objectionable version of the cosmological argument.
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9781108675604 (ebook)
9781108456920 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Sep 2018).
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