Benjamin C. Jantzen (Virginia College of Technology)

An Introduction to Design Arguments

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive survey of the many different forms of design argument for the existence of God.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 347
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9780521183031
• ISBN-10: 0521183030
• Artikelnr.: 39632201

Autorenporträt

Benjamin C. Jantzen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Tech. He has published papers in journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biophysical Journal, Philosophy of Science, and Synthese. His work on formal methods in the philosophy of religion has been published in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society and in the anthology Probability in the Philosophy of Religion (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Preliminaries
3. Arguments from antiquity
4. Medieval arguments
5. The golden age of natural theology
6. Unusual design arguments
7. Hume
8. Paley
9. Darwin
10. Loose ends
11. The modern likelihood argument
12. Intelligent design I: irreducible complexity
13. Intelligent design II: specified complexity
14. What is complexity?
15. Supernatural agents and the role of laws
16. A brief survey of physical law
17. Fine-tuning I: positive arguments
18. Fine-tuning II: objections
19. Conclusion.