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The Recent Revival of Cosmological Arguments
David Alexander 1*
  1 Baylor University
Copyright © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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AbstractGale and Pruss New Cosmological ArgumentKoons's New LookThe ArgumentOppy's ObjectionWorks Cited

Cosmological arguments have received more attention in the past ten years. One reason for this is that versions with restricted or even no reliance on the principle of sufficient reason (PSR) have been formulated. By not relying on PSR – what many consider to be a necessary falsehood – philosophers have been able to escape many of the old criticisms of cosmological arguments. In this essay I survey two recent attempts at presenting a sound version of a cosmological argument. I spend more time on Robert Koons' since his has not yet received the kind of quality attention that the other has.


Philosophy Compass 3/3 (2008): 541–550, 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2008.00134.x

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