{"id":293,"date":"2025-02-15T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/a-design-argument-from-the-cognitive-reliability-of-our-senses-a-proof-of-classical-theism\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T10:30:23","slug":"a-design-argument-from-the-cognitive-reliability-of-our-senses-a-proof-of-classical-theism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/a-design-argument-from-the-cognitive-reliability-of-our-senses-a-proof-of-classical-theism\/","title":{"rendered":"A Design Argument from the Cognitive Reliability of Our Senses: A Proof of Classical Theism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Substack <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/a-design-argument-from-the-cognitive?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">latest<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I present an argument that many will take as supporting classical theism. But I point out that, so taken, the argument is not rationally inescapable or philosophically dispositive since it may also be construed along Nagelian lines to support an inherent immanent teleology in nature.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Topics include rationality, intentionality, both intrinsic and derivative, and the fascinating structural similarity of dispositionality to (conscious) intentionality.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest. I present an argument that many will take as supporting classical theism. But I point out that, so taken, the argument is not rationally inescapable or philosophically dispositive since it may also be construed along Nagelian lines to support an inherent immanent teleology in nature. &#0160; Topics include rationality, intentionality, both intrinsic and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/a-design-argument-from-the-cognitive-reliability-of-our-senses-a-proof-of-classical-theism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Design Argument from the Cognitive Reliability of Our Senses: A Proof of Classical Theism?&#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":[258,259,143,100,225,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darwinism-and-design","category-dispositions","category-god","category-intentionality","category-nagel-thomas","category-reason-and-rationality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","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=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}