A New Kalam Argument: Revenge of the Grim Reaper

Koons, Robert C.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0068.2012.00858.x

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“…4.The crux of Pruss's argument is that causal finitism provides a unique elegant account of the impossibility of a huge range of infinity paradoxes, some of which (as the Grim Reaper Paradox) directly entail that its negation leads to contradiction. See also Pruss (2018b) for a brief and summarized display of the overall argument, and Koons (2014) and (2017) for a modification on the Grim Reaper Paradox that derives a contradiction from the assumption of an infinite past (side-stepping some objections to the traditional Grim Reaper scenario).…”

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How many and why? A question for Graham Oppy that classical theism can answer

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2021

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I argue that classical theism has a significant advantage as a theory of the First Cause over Graham Oppy's naturalistic account. This is because classical theism not only gives us a clear answer to the question of how many first causes there are but also because it explains why there is that number and not another. In comparison, Oppy's ‘initial physical state’ account seemingly leaves these questions hopelessly open, and so does his ‘metaphysical simples’ proposal for a foundational layer of reality. I end by exploring two arguments from omnipotence and perfection that could be of use also to non-classical theists.

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How many and why? A question for Graham Oppy that classical theism can answer

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“…Another thought experiment, the Grim Reaper paradox, has won wider acclaim (see Koons, 2014Koons, , 2017. Imagine Fred, though alive at 10 p.m., has a grim reaper assigned to kill him at 12 p.m. just in case the reaper assigned to kill him at 11:30 p.m. fails, and that one just in case the one at 11:15 p.m. fails, ad infinitum.…”

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Recent Work on Traditional Arguments for Theism I

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A Rationalist Defence of Determinism

Istvan

2020

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Largely due to the popular allegation that contemporary science has uncovered indeterminism in the deepest known levels of physical reality, the debate as to whether humans have moral freedom, the sort of freedom on which moral responsibility depends, has put aside to some extent the traditional worry over whether determinism is true. As I argue in this article, however, there are powerful proofs for both chronological determinism and necessitarianism, forms of determinism that pose the most penetrative threat to human moral freedom. My ultimate hope is to show that, despite the robust case against human moral freedom that can be made without even relying on them, chronological determinism and necessitarianism should be regarded with renewed urgency.

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A New Kalam Argument: Revenge of the Grim Reaper

Cited by 22 publications

References 5 publications

How many and why? A question for Graham Oppy that classical theism can answer

How many and why? A question for Graham Oppy that classical theism can answer

Recent Work on Traditional Arguments for Theism I

A Rationalist Defence of Determinism

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