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• Cover
• Title Page
• Preface
• 1 Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
• What is Philosophy of Religion?
• Arguments and Proving God’s Existence
• Suggested Reading
• 2 The Cosmological Argument for God’s Existence
• Insights from the Past
• Arguments for God’s Existence
• A Cosmological Argument: Aquinas’ Third Way
• Possibility and Necessity: A Look at ‘Modal’ Concepts
• Back to the Third Way
• A Question Remains
• A More Substantial Objection
• Some Compelling Objections
• Suggested Reading
• 3 The Ontological Argument
• Anselm’s Statement of the Argument
• Preliminaries
• A Statement of the Argument
• Gaunilo’s Objection
• Anselm’s Reply
• The Objection Revised
• How to Talk about God without Presupposing that He Exists
• How to Be Greater than a Nonexistent Object
• An Improved Version of the Argument
• A New Problem Rears Its Head
• Suggested Reading
• 4 The Argument from Design
• Watches and Watchmakers
• An Argument from Design
• Some Initial Objections to the Argument
• A Compelling Objection
• A New Design Argument: Fine-Tuning
• Suggested Reading
• 5 The Problem of Evil
• Atheistic Arguments
• The Problem of Evil
• The Logical Problem of Evil
• Examining Mackie’s Charge
• The Free Will Defense
• A Modal Interlude: Possible Worlds
• Back to the Free Will Defense
• Some Loose Ends: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Animal Suffering
• The Evidential Problem of Evil and Skeptical Theism
• An Objection and a Reply to Skeptical Theism
• Suggested Reading
• 6 Omnipotence
• Divine Attributes
• Attributing Omnipotence
• Defining Omnipotence and an Objection
• Doing the Impossible
• Constructing a Definition
• Back to the Stone
• Suggested Reading
• 7 Omniscience, Foreknowledge, and Free Will
• Attributing Omniscience
• Defining Omniscience
• Foreknowledge and Free Will
• One Response to the Argument
• A Better Response to the Argument
• A Harder Objection
• Replies to the Argument
• Suggested Reading
• 8 Divine Freedom and Moral Perfection
• The Compossibility of the Divine Attributes?
• Is There a Best Possible World?
• Perfect Goodness and Divine Freedom
• Some Initial Objections to the Argument
• A Somewhat More Complicated (But Compelling) Objection to the Argument
• Suggested Reading
• 9 Miracles
• A Question of Definition
• An Immediate Objection
• A Brief Refinement
• Hume’s Objection
• Conclusion
• Suggested Reading
• 10 The Evidentialist Objection
• Clifford and “The Ethics of Belief”
• James and “The Will to Believe”
• An Assessment
• Suggested Reading
• 11 The Evidentialist Objection and Foundationalism
• Evidentialism and Foundationalism
• The Evidentialist Objection Restated
• Self-Referential Incoherence and Reformed Epistemology
• Warrant and Proper Function
• Warrant and Defeat
• Warrant, What’s It Good For?
• An Evidentialist Alternative
• Suggested Reading
• References
• Index
• End User License Agreement