{"id":1668,"date":"2023-01-20T12:42:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T12:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/an-online-catalog-of-theistic-arguments\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:42:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T12:42:06","slug":"an-online-catalog-of-theistic-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/an-online-catalog-of-theistic-arguments\/","title":{"rendered":"An Online Catalog of Theistic Arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chad McIntosh writes,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I'd like to let you know about a project I've been working on for the past two years that I have just completed (for now): a fairly comprehensive, organized list and summary of theistic arguments. I hope it will be a useful resource.<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.camcintosh.com\/theistic\/index.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I've also included at the very end (under META > Cumulative Case) a calculator that allows visitors to come up with their own estimate of the evidential power of the arguments.<\/span><\/p>\n

The website is a little clunky, but serviceable (it is best as expanded window on desktop). Of course, I've included several of your arguments:<\/span><\/p>\n

ONTOLOGICAL > Possibility Defenses > Kordig & Vallicella <\/span>
METAPHYSICAL > Facts<\/span>
AXIOLOGICAL > Deontic Value > Modal Axiarchism <\/span><\/p>\n

I thought I should take a look at your book A Paradigm Theory of Existence<\/em> with the intent to summarize it's main argument, but that's a hard book to get a hold of! There's also a similar argument just published by Christoph de Ray called "Existence Exists and it is God," in which he interacts with your book. I may integrate both yours and de Ray's arguments in a future update to the page. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Great to hear from you, Chad. You've created an interesting and useful resource. The site is a bit clunky but it displays clearly and easily on my desktop and is easy to navigate. Thank you for your references to my work. As for my existence book, I'd send you a copy if I had one to spare. If someone reading this has a copy he would be willing to part with, please contact Chad. I don't recommend that you buy it; it is way overpriced, although on occasion the Amazon pricing algorithm goes haywire and the tome becomes relatively affordable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks also for referring me to Christophe de Ray<\/a>, whose article I found here<\/a>.  I will have to read it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me make two minor comments on the material in the Prolegomena section. You define 'theistic argument' as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Theistic arguments are arguments for (or the rationality of belief in or commitment to) the existence of a being with at least one God-like attribute, such as necessity, God-like power or knowledge, ground of morality, creator or designer of the natural world, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The first is that you need a second 'for' after 'or' in the parenthesis. The second is substantive. Suppose an entity has exactly one God-like attribute. I wouldn't call an argument for the existence of such an entity an argument for God given your definition of theism:<\/span><\/p>\n

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 Theism is the view that there is a personal God like that worshipped by Jews, Christians, and Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Good of Plato, the One of Plotinus, the deus sive natura<\/em> of Spinoza,  the objevktiver Geist<\/em> of Hegel, and F. H. Bradley's Absolute, to mention just these five, are each such as to have one or more God-like attributes, but none of them are persons.  I have no objection to your definition of theism; my point is that it does not comport well with your definition of 'theistic arguments.' The latter is easily repaired, but I'll leave that to you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chad McIntosh writes, I'd like to let you know about a project I've been working on for the past two years that I have just completed (for now): a fairly comprehensive, organized list and summary of theistic arguments. I hope it will be a useful resource. https:\/\/www.camcintosh.com\/theistic\/index.html I've also included at the very end (under META … Continue reading “An Online Catalog of Theistic Arguments”<\/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":[143,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-mail-bag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","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=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}