The Kalām Cosmological Argument: A Reassessment

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Erasmus, Jacobus (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 25
• Θέματα: Religion-Philosophy.; Theology.; Islam-Doctrines.; Philology.; Philosophy of Religion.; Christian Theology.; Islamic Theology.; Classical Studies.

This book offers a discussion of the kalām cosmological argument, and presents a defence of a version of that argument after critically evaluating three of the most important versions of the argument. It argues that, since the versions of the kalām cosmological argument defended by Philoponus (c....

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Philoponus' Creatio Ex Nihilo Argument
• Chapter 3. Al-Ghazālī's Kalam Cosmological Argument
• Chapter 4. The Rise of Set Theory and Modern Cosmology
• Chapter 5. Craig's Kalam Cosmological Argument
• Chapter 6. Problems with the Infinity Argument
• Chapter 7. Philosophical Arguments for a Beginning
• Chapter 8. Can Cosmology Justify Belief in an Eternal Universe?
• Chapter 9. God as the Explanation of the Universe
• Chapter 10. Conclusion.