Hi Dr Pruss, Sorry for commenting on old post but just wanted to know does the kind of necessary being you defend able to accommodate a priori atheological conceivability arguments ?
Well we aren't defending the existence of God as such, but of a necessary being. So the best atheological conceivability argument - the modal argument from evil - doesn't harm the line of thought. Now both Josh and I think the necessary being is God, so we need a response - but not in the book. An easy answer is that conceivability is defeasible evidence for possibility, and in this case the arguments for the existence of God provide a defeater.
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ReplyDeleteHi Dr Pruss,
ReplyDeleteSorry for commenting on old post but just wanted to know does the kind of necessary being you defend able to accommodate a priori atheological conceivability arguments ?
Well we aren't defending the existence of God as such, but of a necessary being. So the best atheological conceivability argument - the modal argument from evil - doesn't harm the line of thought.
ReplyDeleteNow both Josh and I think the necessary being is God, so we need a response - but not in the book.
An easy answer is that conceivability is defeasible evidence for possibility, and in this case the arguments for the existence of God provide a defeater.
so the necessary being you defend can be a moderate Anselmian God as proposed by Mike Almeida ?
ReplyDeleteIs there a release date for this book?
ReplyDeleteI don't know. Maybe this winter?
ReplyDeleteI see. Thank you for the update, and I look forward to reading it when it is released!
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