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Insufficient reason in the ‘new cosmological argument’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2001

KEVIN DAVEY  and
ROB CLIFTON
KEVIN DAVEY
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
ROB CLIFTON
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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Abstract

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In a recent article in this journal, Richard Gale and Alexander Pruss offer a new cosmological proof for the existence of God relying only on the Weak Principle of Sufficient Reason, W-PSR. We argue that their proof relies on applications of W-PSR that cannot be justified, and that our modal intuitions simply do not support W-PSR in the way Gale and Pruss take them to.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , December 2001 , pp. 485 - 490
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press