{"id":1136,"date":"2023-11-16T13:07:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T13:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/james-n-andersons-presuppositional-arguments\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T13:07:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T13:07:06","slug":"james-n-andersons-presuppositional-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/james-n-andersons-presuppositional-arguments\/","title":{"rendered":"James N. Anderson&#8217;s Presuppositional Arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">As you may have noticed, I am <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/van-til-and-presuppositionalism\/\">none too impressed<\/a> with Cornelius Van Til and his presuppositionalist followers. Intellectual honesty being one of my epistemic virtues, however, I need to be sure that I really understand what they are saying. Now James N. Anderson strikes me as the sharpest presuppositionalist among the professional philosophers. (Among the theologians, I give the palm to Gordon Clark.) So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/2017\/04\/a-selection-of-presuppositional-arguments\/\">here<\/a> is a list of Anderson&#39;s articles for your, and especially my, perusal.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/docs\/If_Knowledge_Then_God.pdf\">If Knowledge Then God<\/a>&#0160;(2005) \u2014 a paper in which I summarize Van Til\u2019s transcendental argument (actually multiple versions of it) and contrast it with the theistic arguments of Alvin Plantinga.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/docs\/knowledge_and_theism.html\">The Theistic Preconditions of Knowledge<\/a>&#0160;(2006) \u2014 an argument that human knowledge presupposes the existence of God.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/docs\/Frame_Festschrift_Essay.pdf\">Presuppositionalism and Frame\u2019s Epistemology<\/a>&#0160;(2009) \u2014 an essay on John Frame\u2019s distinctive contributions to epistemology and apologetics, in which I sketch out (in the final section) a triperspectival presuppositional critique of naturalism.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/docs\/The_Lord_of_Non-Contradiction.pdf\">The Lord of Non-Contradiction<\/a>&#0160;(2011) \u2014 an article (co-authored with Greg Welty) which argues for the existence of God from the laws of logic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epsociety.org\/userfiles\/art-Anderson-Welty%20(In%20Defense%20of%20the%20Argument%20for%20God%20from%20Logic).pdf\">In Defense of the Argument for God from Logic<\/a>&#0160;(2013) \u2014 our responses to several critiques of the argument in the previous article.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/2011\/12\/antitheism-presupposes-theism-and-so-does-every-other-ism\/\">Antitheism Presupposes Theism<\/a>&#0160;(2011) \u2014 a defense of Van Til\u2019s provocative claim, which extends the argument for God from logic into an argument for God from any belief stance (including agnosticism).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/2016\/08\/atheism-amoralism-and-arationalism\/\">Atheism, Amoralism, and Arationalism<\/a>&#0160;(2016) \u2014 the outline of an argument to the effect that atheism cannot account for objective rationality.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have noticed, I am none too impressed with Cornelius Van Til and his presuppositionalist followers. Intellectual honesty being one of my epistemic virtues, however, I need to be sure that I really understand what they are saying. Now James N. Anderson strikes me as the sharpest presuppositionalist among the professional philosophers. (Among &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/james-n-andersons-presuppositional-arguments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;James N. Anderson&#8217;s Presuppositional Arguments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-van-til-and-presuppositionalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}