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Is There a God? - A Debate (Paperback)
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Is There a God? - A Debate (Paperback)
Series: Little Debates about Big Questions
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Bertrand Russell famously quipped that he didn't believe in God for
the same reason that he didn't believe in a teapot in orbit between
the earth and Mars: it is a bizarre assertion for which no evidence
can be provided. Is belief in God really like belief in Russell's
teapot? Kenneth L. Pearce argues that God is no teapot. God is a
real answer to the deepest question of all: why is there something
rather than nothing? Graham Oppy argues that we should believe that
there are none but natural causal entities with none but natural
causal properties-and hence should believe that there are no gods.
Beginning from this basic disagreement, the authors proceed to
discuss and debate a wide range of philosophical questions,
including questions about explanation, necessity, rationality,
religious experience, mathematical objects, the foundations of
ethics, and the methodology of philosophy. Each author first
presents his own side, and then they interact through two rounds of
objections and replies. Pedagogical features include standard form
arguments, section summaries, bolded key terms and principles, a
glossary, and annotated reading lists. In the volume foreword,
Helen De Cruz calls the debate "both edifying and a joy," and sums
up what's at stake: "Here you have two carefully formulated
positive proposals for worldviews that explain all that is:
classical theism, or naturalistic atheism. You can follow along
with the authors and deliberate: which one do you find more
plausible?" Though written with beginning students in mind, this
debate will be of interest to philosophers at all levels and to
anyone who values careful, rational thought about the nature of
reality and our place in it.
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