A defense of modal appearances

McIntosh, C. A.

doi:10.1007/s11153-020-09779-3

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“…Collin (2022) argues that attempts to infer the possibility of God's non‐existence from the apparent logical consistency of the proposition “God does not exist” face an undermining defeater, which does not threaten the original possibility premise; for a response see Schmid (forthcoming). Related treatments of the entitlement to accept the Possibility Premise of MOA's and/or parody argument on the grounds that God's existence or non‐existence is conceivably or apparently possible are given by Spencer (2018) and McIntosh (2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

Modal Ontological Arguments

Stacey

2023

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Inspired by the third chapter of Anselm's Proslogion, twentieth century philosophers including Charles Hartshorne and Alvin Plantinga developed “modal” ontological arguments for the existence of God. Such arguments use modal logic to infer God's existence from the premises that (i) God's existence is possible and (ii) if God exists, He exists necessarily. Like other ontological arguments, modal arguments have won few converts to theism; many commentators consider them question‐begging or liable to parody. This article details how recent attempts to defend these arguments have tried to overcome these difficulties by drawing on modern accounts of the epistemology and metaphysics of modality.

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Modal Ontological Arguments

Stacey

2023

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“…Arbour (2019) points out that because arguments for God's existence are a fortiori arguments for God's possible existence, having so many theistic arguments should significantly raise one's credence in the proposition that God possibly exists. McIntosh (2021) argues that since if God's existence were impossible it would probably appear to be so upon further reflection, that it doesn't justifies belief that God possibly exists. Finally, Schmid (MS) thinks the fact that “there are imperfect beings” possibly has an explanation outside itself gives reason to think a perfect being possibly exists.…”

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confidence: 99%