The Impossibility of God 1591021200, 9781591021209

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Title
Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
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DEFINITIONAL DISPROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
Introduction
1. Can God’s Existence Be Disproved? - J. N. Findlay
2. God’s Non-Existence: A Reply to Mr. Rainer and Mr. Hughes - J. N. Findlay
3. Proving the Non-Existence of God - John L. Pollock
4. Can an Ancient Argument of Carneades on Cardinal Virtues and Divine Attributes Be Used to Disprove the Existence of God? - Douglas Walton
5. God and Moral Autonomy - James Rachels
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DEDUCTIVE EVIL DISPROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
Introduction
6. Evil and Omnipotence - J. L. Mackie
7. The Problem of Evil - J. L. Mackie
8. Plantinga on the Free Will Defense - Hugh LaFollette
9. A Sound Logical Argument from Evil - Quentin Smith
10. Unjustified Evil and God’s Choice - Richard R. La Croix
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DOCTRINAL DISPROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
Introduction
11. The Paradox of Eden - Richard R. La Croix
12. A Moral Argument for Atheism - Raymond D. Bradley
13. Miracles as Evidence Against the Existence of God - Christine Overall
14. Miracles and God: A Reply to Robert A. H. Larmer - Christine Overall
15. The Argument from Unfairness - Richard Schoenig
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MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES DISPROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
Introduction
16. Incompatible-Properties Arguments: A Survey - Theodore M. Drange
17. Omniscience and Immutability - Norman Kretzmann
18. Omniscience, Eternity, and Time - Anthony Kenny
19. On the Compossibility of the Divine Attributes - David Blumenfeld
20. A Disproof of the God of the Common Man - Michael Martin
21. Conflicts between the Divine Attributes - Michael Martin
22. Why God Cannot Think: Kant, Omnipresence, and Consciousness - Matt McCormick
23. God and the Best Possible World - Lawrence Resnick
24. Agency and Omniscience - Tomis Kapitan
25. The Incompatibility of Omniscience and Intentional Action: A Reply to David P. Hunt - Tomis Kapitan
26. The Paradox of Divine Agency - Matt McCormick
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SINGLE ATTRIBUTE DISPROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
Introduction
27. The Concept of the Supernatural - Gilbert Fulmer
28. The Paradox of Omnipotence - J. L. Cowan
29. The Paradox of Omnipotence Revisited - J. L. Cowan
30. Against Omniscience: The Case from Essential Indexicals - Patrick Grim
31. Is Omniscience Possible? - Roland Puccetti
32. Logic and Limits of Knowledge and Truth - Patrick Grim
33. The Being That Knew Too Much - Patrick Grim
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APPENDIX
Of the Confused and Contradictory Ideas of Theology - Paul Thiry d'Holbach