Felipe Leon has recently put forth an argument against traditional theism, based on what he calls the “Principle of Material Causality” (PMC). In essence, this principle states that...
In a blog post entitled, Two More Arguments Against an Infinite Past, Alexander Pruss offers an argument for the impossibility of an infinite past. The argument...
Well, this is really a challenge for skeptics of a necessary being (a necessarily existing, causally powerful entity), but I wanted a catchy title, and as a matter of sociological observation, atheists are typically (though not always) skeptics of a necessary being. The challenge is this …
Here’s an easy-to-think-about argument against the infinite past. It bears some resemblance to arguments discussed in other recent threads. Though obviously inspired by the Grim Reaper discussion, it does not feature a series of fractions converging toward zero. I don’t think it’s a good argument, but I think there is a lesson to be learned.
In an another post, I gave a Grim Reaper based argument against an infinite past. Here I want to give two more arguments. Unlike the earlier argument, these two arguments are not going to be useful for arguing for the existence of God, since they make use of premises that the atheist is likely to deny.
An endless future is an actual infinite. Here are five arguments for the conclusion that an endless future is an actual infinite.
Grim reapers have recently been employed in an argument against an infinite past. I’d like to see if grim reapers may similarly be employed in an argument against uncaused beginnings.
In his 2014 paper, ‘A New Kalam Argument: Revenge of the Grim Reaper’, Rob Koons presents what is surely the canonical version of the Grim Reaper...
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