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100 1 Le Poidevin, Robin,|d1962-
245 10 Arguing for atheism :|ban introduction to the philosophy
of religion /|cRobin Le Poidevin.
260 London :|bRoutledge,|c1996.
300 xxiii, 159p. ;|c22 cm.
505 0 Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Limits
of Theistic Explanation 1. Must the Universe Have a Cause?
1.1 The mysteries of existence 1.2 A first cause 1.3 The
temporal and modal cosmological arguments 1.4 Problems
with the first premise 1.5 Summary Further reading 2. Is
God Necessary? 2.1 Possible worlds 2.2 The ontological
argument 2.3 The modal ontological argument 2.4 God and
modal realism 2.5 Summary Further reading 3. Could the
Universe Have an Explanation? 3.1 A trivial explanation
3.2 Causes and casual explanations 3.3 Personal
explanation 3.4 A necessary cause? 3.5 Summary Further
reading 4. Are We the Outcome of Chance or Design? 4.1
Analogy and the teleological argument 4.2 Probability and
the teleological argument 4.3 The concept of chance 4.4
The weak anthropic principle 4.5 Summary Further reading
5. Does the Universe Have a Purpose? 5.1 The strong
anthropic principle 5.2 Teleology and casual reductionism:
the selfish gene hypothesis 5.3 Teleology without casual
reductionism 5.4 Summary Further reading Part II: Moral
Arguments for Atheism 6. Are God and Ethics Inseparable or
Incompatible? 6.1 Plato's dilemma 6.2 Descriptive versus
prescriptive morality 6.3 Moral realism and moral
subjectivism 6.4 Pluralism and autonomy 6.5 Summary
Further reading 7. Is there a Problem of Evil? 7.1
Disaster, depravity, deity and design 7.2 Determinism and
human nature 7.3 Human freedom from the divine perspective
7.4 Can the theist refuse to answer the problem of evil?
7.5 Summary Further reading Part III: Religion without God
8. Is God a Fiction? 8.1 Realism, positivism and
instrumentalism 8.2 Radical theology 8.3 Fiction and the
emotions 8.4 Atheism and religious practice 8.5 Summary
Further reading 9. Is 'Does God Exist?' a real Question?
9.1 The deflationist argument 9.2 The argument applied to
theism 9.3 Deflationism deflated? 9.4 Summary Further
reading 10. Should the Atheist Fear Death? 10.1 Riddles of
morality 10.2 The river of time and the sea of ice 10.3
Death in the mirror 10.4 Immortality: real and vicarious
10.5 Summary Further reading Glossary Bibliography Index
650 0 Atheism.
650 0 Religion|xPhilosophy.
