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Sunday, November 8, 2009
Beckwith on Thomism and ID
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It's off topic, but I'm curious if you (doc Feser) agree with Graham Oppy's recent book "Arguing about Gods", where he argue that no philosophical argument for theism or atheism is good enough to change the minds of reasonable participants in the God debate.
ReplyDeleteHe examines Aquinas' arguments too, and the arguments of atheists like Dawkins and others.
It's off topic, but I'm curious if you (doc Feser) agree with Graham Oppy's recent book "Arguing about Gods", where he argue that no philosophical argument for theism or atheism is good enough to change the minds of reasonable participants in the God debate.
ReplyDeleteHe examines Aquinas' arguments too, and the arguments of atheists like Dawkins and others.
Bem,
ReplyDeleteAlex Pruss reviewed that book for the Notre Dame press. I'm pretty sure Feser would agree with the critique. I remember loving the review.
As far as I remember, Oppy makes some usual freshman mistakes about the (so called) cosmological argument ("It doesn't prove that God is eternal!"...snore...) and he scores some points with arguments that have a long history of being doubted not only by atheists, but by theists as well.
James Chastek
The link for Pruss's review of Oppy.
ReplyDeleteOf course Oppy did write a very interesting rebuttal to Quentin Smith's Atheistic argument from Hartle-Hawking cosmology.
ReplyDeleteFound here.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/graham_oppy/smith1.html
Philosophers are funny animals. Not like Apologists at all. Atheist like Oppy take issue with Atheists like Quentin Smith on certain arguments or Theists like Wes Morrison take issue with other Theists like Craig on specific theistic arguments.
Interesting....:-)