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Luokassa Teismi ja selitys on Jou 1. 2010
In the last two parts I summarized Swinburne´s criteria for the justification of explanation and defended them. In this part I will make an outline of an inference to the best explanation-type argument for theism.
Theism As a Metaphysical Hypothesis
Before I proceed, it is also worthwhile to notice that, at least for the purposes of an [...]
Luokassa Teismi ja selitys on Jou 1. 2010
Last time I argued that a good scientific (or meta-scientific) hypothesis must satisfy only four or three explanatory criteria, not ten or so like Luke likes to argue in his blog. But aren´t some criteria missing here? In this post I will be quoting Swinburne at lenght.
Swinburne on Prediction
One criterion that is missing is ‘predictive [...]
Luokassa Teismi ja selitys on Mar 30. 2010
Luke Muehlhauser from Common Sense Atheism has written a number of posts about what can be called ‘the problem of theism and explanation’. I have come to known about this problem for theism mostly through Luke´s fantastic blog, so in this post (the first post in English here!) I am then giving my thoughts about this problem [...]
