Insufficient reason in the ‘new cosmological argument’
Religious Studies 37 (4):485-490 (2001)
| Abstract | 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. | |||||||||
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