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Almeida, Michael, 2018, Cosmological Arguments, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
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Attfield, Robin, 1975, “The God of Religion and the God of Philosophy”, Religious Studies, 9(1): 1–9. doi:10.1017/s0034412500006259 (Scholar)
Beck, W. David, 2002, “The Cosmological Argument: A Current Bibliographical Appraisal”, Philosophia Christi, 2(2): 283–304. [Beck 2002 available online] (Scholar)
Bonaventure, c. 1250, Commentary on the Sentences: Philosophy of God. Works of St. Bonaventure XVI, R.E. Houser and Timothy B. Noone (eds), St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Press, 2014. (Scholar)
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Cohen, Yishai, 2015, “Endless Future: A Persistent Thorn in the The Kalām Argument”, Philosophical Papers, 44(2): 154–187. doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2015.1056961. (Scholar)
Copan, Paul, 2017, 2019, The Kalām Cosmological Argument (2 vols), New York: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
Copan, Paul and William Lane Craig, 2004, Creation out of Nothing, Grand Rapids: Baker. (Scholar)
Craig, William Lane, 1979, The Kalām Cosmological Argument, London: Macmillan. (Scholar)
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Craig, William Lane and James P. Moreland, (eds.), 2009, The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, London: Blackwell, (Scholar)
Craig, William Lane and James D. Sinclair, 2009, “The Kalām Cosmological Argument”, in Craig and Moreland 2009: 101–201. [This contains an exhaustive bibliography on the Kalām cosmological argument.] [Craig and Sinclair 2009 preprint available online] (Scholar)
Craig, William Lane and Quentin Smith, 1993, Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198263838.001.0001 (Scholar)
Davey, Kevin and Rob Clifton, 2001, “Insufficient Reason in the ‘New Cosmological Argument’”, Religious Studies, 37(4): 485–490. doi:10.1017/s0034412501005819 (Scholar)
Davidson, Herbert A., 1969, “John Philoponus as a Source of Medieval Islamic and Jewish Proofs of Creation”, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 89(2) (April–June): 357–91. doi:10.2307/596519 (Scholar)
Davies, Paul, 1984, Superforce, New York: Simon and Schuster. (Scholar)
–––, 1992, The Mind of God, New York: Simon and Schuster. (Scholar)
Davis, Stephen, 1997, God, Reason & Theistic Proofs, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. (Scholar)
Dvali, George, 2004, “Out of the Darkness”, Scientific American, 290(2) (Feb.): 68–75. (Scholar)
Eells, Ellery, 1988, “Quentin Smith on Infinity and the Past”, Philosophy of Science, 55(3): 453–455. doi:10.1086/289451 [Eells 1988 preprint available online] (Scholar)
Fakry, Majid, 1957, “The Classical Islamic Arguments for the Existence of God”, The Muslim World, 47(2): 133–45. doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.1957.tb02956.x [Fakry 1957 available online] (Scholar)
Flew, Anthony and Alasdair C. MacIntyre (eds.), 1955, New Essays in Philosophical Theology, London: SCM. (Scholar)
Gale, Richard M. (ed.), 1991, On the Nature and Existence of God, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/CBO9781316499054 (Scholar)
Gale, Richard M. and Alexander R. Pruss, 1999, “A New Cosmological Argument”, Religious Studies, 35(4): 461–476. Reprinted in Gale and Pruss 2003: 365–80. [Gale and Pruss 1999 available online] (Scholar)
–––, 2002, “A Response to Oppy, and to Davey and Clifton”, Religious Studies, 38(1): 89–99. doi:10.1017/s0034412501005923 (Scholar)
––– (eds.), 2003, The Existence of God, Burlington, VT: Ashgate. (Scholar)
Gellman, Jerome, 2000, “Prospects for a sound stage 3 of cosmological arguments”, Religious Studies, 36(2): 195–2001. Reprinted in Gale and Pruss 2003: 381–87. (Scholar)
Glanz, James, 1998, “Cosmic Motion Revealed”, Science, 282(5397): 2156–2157. doi:10.1126/science.282.5397.2156a (Scholar)
Goldschmidt, Tyron (ed.), 2013, The Puzzle of Existence: Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing? New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
Grünbaum, Adolf, 1991, “Creation as a Pseudo-Explanation in Current Physical Cosmology”, Erkenntnis, 35(1–3): 233–54. doi:10.1007/bf00388287 [Grünbaum 1991 available online] (Scholar)
–––, 1994, “Some Comments on William Craig’s ‘Creation and Big Bang Cosmology’”, Philosophia Naturalis, 31(2): 225–236. [Grünbaum 1994 available online] (Scholar)
Harvey, Ramon, 2021, Transcendent God, Rational World, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. (Scholar)
Hawking, Stephen W., 1987, “Quantum Cosmology”, in Stephen W. Hawking and Werner Israel (eds.), Three Hundred Years of Gravitation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 631–51. (Scholar)
–––, 1988, A Brief History of Time, New York: Bantam. (Scholar)
Heil, John, 2013, “Contingency”, in Goldschmidt 2013: 167–81. (Scholar)
Hick, John, 1960, “God as Necessary Being”, Journal of Philosophy, 57(22/23): 725–33. (Scholar)
Hume, David, 1779, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, London. Reprinted Indianapolis: Hackett, 1980. [Hume 1779 available online] (Scholar)
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Kant, Immanuel, 1781/1787, Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. [Kant Critique available online] (Scholar)
Kenny, Anthony, 1969, The Five Ways, New York: Schocken Books. (Scholar)
Koons, Robert C., 1997, “A New Look at the Cosmological Argument”, American Philosophical Quarterly, 34(2): 193–211. (Scholar)
–––, 2008, “Epistemological Foundations for the Cosmological Argument”, in Jonathan L. Kvanvig, (ed.), Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 105–133. (Scholar)
–––, 2014, “A New Kalam Argument: Revenge of the Grim Reaper”, Noûs, 48(2): 256–67. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0068.2012.00858.x (Scholar)
Leftow, Brian, 2012, God and Necessity, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199263356.001.0001 (Scholar)
Leibniz, Gottfried, 1714, The Monadology, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991. [ Leibniz 1714 available online] (Scholar)
Leslie, John, 1979, Value and Existence, Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield. (Scholar)
Loke, Andrew, 2014a, “A Modified Philosophical Argument for the Beginning of the Universe”, Think, 13(36): 71–83. doi:10.1017/s147717561300033x (Scholar)
–––, 2014b, “No Heartbreak at Hilbert’s Hotel: a Reply to Landon Hedrick”, Religious Studies, 50(1): 47–50. doi: 10.1017/s0034412513000346 (Scholar)
–––, 2017, God and Ultimate Origins: A Novel Cosmological Argument, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
Mackie, John L., 1982, The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
Martin, Michael, 1990, Atheism: A Philosophical Justification, Philadelphia: Temple University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1991, The Case Against Christianity, Philadelphia: Temple University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1986, “Swinburne’s Inductive Cosmological Argument”, Heythrop Journal, 27(2): 151–162. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2265.1986.tb00085.x (Scholar)
Mermin, N. David, 1985, “Is the moon there when nobody looks? Reality and the quantum theory”, Physics Today, 38(4): 38–47. doi:10.1063/1.880968 (Scholar)
Miethe, Terry L., 1978, “The Cosmological Argument: A Research Bibliography”, New Scholasticism, 52(2): 285–305. doi:10.5840/newscholas197852210 (Scholar)
Morriston, Wes, 2000, “Must the Beginning of the Universe Have a Personal Cause? A Critical Examination of the Kalam Cosmological Argument”, Faith and Philosophy, 17(2): 149–69. doi:10.5840/faithphil200017215 (Scholar)
–––, 2002a, “Causes and Beginnings in the Kalam Argument: Reply to Craig”,Faith and Philosophy, 19(2): 233–44. doi:10.5840/faithphil200219218 (Scholar)
–––, 2002b, “Craig on the Actual Infinite”, Religious Studies, 38: 147–166. (Scholar)
–––, 2003, “Must Metaphysical Time Have a Beginning?”, Faith and Philosophy, 20(3): 288–306. doi:10.5840/faithphil200320338 (Scholar)
–––, 2010, “Beginningless Past, Endless Future, and the Actual Infinite”, Faith and Philosophy, 27(4): 439–50. doi:10.5840/faithphil201027444 (Scholar)
Musser, George, 2004, “Four Keys to Cosmology”, Scientific American 290(2) (February): 42–43. (Scholar)
Nowacki, Mark R., 2007, The “Kalām” Cosmological Argument for God, New York: Barnes and Noble. (Scholar)
O’Connor, Timothy, 2004, “‘And This All Men Call God’”, Faith and Philosophy, 21(4): 417–35. doi:10.5840/faithphil200421436 [O’Connor 2004 available online] (Scholar)
–––, 2008, Theism and Ultimate Explanation: the Necessary Shape of Contingency, London: Wiley-Blackwell. (Scholar)
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Oderberg, David S., 2002, “Traversal of the Infinite: the ‘Big Bang,’ and the Kalam Cosmological Argument”, Philosophia Christi, 4(2): 305–344. [Oderberg 2002 available online] (Scholar)
–––, 2013, “The Cosmological Argument”, in Chad Meister and Paul Copan (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion, London: Routledge, pp. 401–10. (Scholar)
Oppy, Graham, 1999, “Koons’ Cosmological Argument”, Faith and Philosophy, 16(3): 379–389. doi:10.5840/faithphil199916335 (Scholar)
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