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This book includes arguments for and against belief in God. The arguments for the belief are analyzed in the first six chapters and include ontological arguments from Anselm through Gödel; the cosmological arguments of Aquinas and Leibniz; and arguments from evidence for design and miracles. The next two chapters consider arguments against belief. The last chapter examines Pascalian arguments for and against belief in God. This book is a valuable resource for philosophers of religion and theologians and interests logicians and mathematicians as well.
| Preface | ||
| I | 'God', 'god', and God | 3 |
| II | Classical Ontological Arguments | 29 |
| App. A | Symbols and symbolizations | 70 |
| App. B | Derivations and models | 71 |
| App. C | Rules of inference and forms of derivations | 78 |
| III | Modern Modal Ontological Arguments | 81 |
| App. A | 'Possible worlds' | 99 |
| App. B | Modal logic | 105 |
| IV | Kurt Godel's Ontologischer Beweis | 115 |
| App. A | Notes in Kurt Godel's hand | 144 |
| App. B | Notes in Dana Scott's hand | 145 |
| App. C | Mainly derivations | 146 |
| V | First Causes: "The Second Way" | 168 |
| App. A | Notes on Aquinas's other ways | 195 |
| App. B | Bangs and infinite regresses of causes | 198 |
| VI | Ultimate Reasons: Proofs a contingentia mundi | 200 |
| App. A | Leibniz's problem with necessity | 228 |
| App. B | Contingency in John Leslie's Axiarchism | 233 |
| App. C | Robert C. Koons's 'New Look' cosmological argument | 234 |
| VII | Look 'Round! - Arguments from Design | 238 |
| App | Swinburne's teleological arguments, and his cumulative argument, for the existence of God | 288 |
| VIII | Clouds of Witnesses - "Of Miracles" | 298 |
| App. A | A proof of Hume's theorem | 331 |
| App. B | Condorcet's rule, witness reliability, and 'last degrees of assurance' | 333 |
| IX | Romancing the Stone | 345 |
| App | A formal articulation of the argument of Section 5 | 367 |
| X | 'God Knows (Go Figure)' | 369 |
| App | Notes on Cantorian set theory | 394 |
| XI | Atheologies, Demonstrative and Evidential | 401 |
| App | Promised derivations | 432 |
| XII | The Logical Problem of Evil | 436 |
| App. A | On alleged incompatibilities of divine omniscience and freedom | 479 |
| App. B | A deduction in Section 2.2.3 spelled out | 494 |
| XIII | Pascalian Wagers | 499 |
| App | Hyperreals and decision theory | 532 |
| Notes | 539 | |
| References | 630 | |
| Index of Names | 647 |
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