scholarly journals Grounding and the Existence of God

Metaphysica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua R. Sijuwade
Keyword(s):  
Layered Structure ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Explanatory Framework ◽  
Richard Swinburne

Abstract In this article, I seek to assess the extent to which Theism, the claim that there is a God, can provide a true fundamental explanation for the instantiation of the grounding relation that connects the various entities within the layered structure of reality. More precisely, I seek to utilise the explanatory framework of Richard Swinburne within a specific metaphysical context, a ground-theoretic context, which will enable me to develop a true fundamental explanation for the existence of grounding. And thus, given the truth of this type of explanation, we will have a further reason to believe in the existence of God.

The Principle of Credulity and Religious Experience

1986 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Martin
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Richard Swinburne

In The Existence of God Richard Swinburne argues that certain religious experiences support the hypothesis that God exists. Indeed, the argument from religious experience is of crucial importance in Swinburne's philosophical theology. For, according to Swinburne, without the argument from religious experience the combined weight of the other arguments he considers, e.g. the teleological, the cosmological, or the argument from miracles, does not render the theistic hypothesis very probable. However, the argument from religious experience combined with these other arguments makes theism more probable than its rivals.

Simplicity and Theology

1996 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Fawkes ◽  
Tom Smythe
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Order ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Cosmological Argument ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Basic Physics ◽  
Richard Swinburne ◽  
The Universe ◽  
As If

Richard Swinburne has given a defense of arguments for the existence of God (and in particular of teleological arguments) in his book The Existence of God (1979/1991). This paper argues that such theistic arguments fail, and poses some general problems for theistic arguments. Swinburne's use of a principle of simplicity is not given adequate justification and, if justified, works against theism. There are adequate rebuttals to Swinburne's arguments that depend upon there being few particles of basic physics, universal laws of nature, cogent cosmological argument, and temporal order in the universe. Theistic arguments falter on malleability, on going well beyond evidence, on anthropomorphism, on treating consistency as if it were evidence or explanation, on selective and inconsistent use of principles, and on a lack of any serious attempt to disprove hypotheses. All of this serves to support the conclusion suggested by Hume's posthumous theological writings that theistic arguments are so malleable, profligate, overreaching, equivocal, anthropomorphic, selective, inconsistent, and uncritical as to be inept.

scholarly journals O ARGUMENTO BAYESIANO DA EXPERIÊNCIA RELIGIOSA EM FAVOR DO TEÍSMO

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (147) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Agnaldo Cuoco Portugal
Keyword(s):  
Existence Of God ◽  
Richard Swinburne

O artigo apresenta e discute criticamente o argumento da experiência religiosa proposto por Richard Swinburne na obra The Existence of God (2004), uma das mais importantes da filosofia analítica da religião contemporânea. Além de introduzir conceitos de teoria da indução probabilística, que servem de base para o argumento proposto, são também explicados os elementos de teoria da percepção e da justificação de crenças perceptuais que Swinburne supõe. Em seguida, são discutidos quatro questionamentos possíveis contra o argumento da experiência religiosa. Por fim, consideram-se duas respostas possíveis aos questionamentos feitos na parte anterior, de modo a se poder ainda empregar o fenômeno da experiência religiosa no debate acerca da existência de Deus de modo argumentativo.

The Existence of God. By Richard Swinburne

1987 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-234
Author(s):  
Vincent Daues ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Existence Of God ◽  
Richard Swinburne
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