The Kalam Cosmological Argument: A Reassessment

Offers a refreshing discussion of the kalam cosmological argument

Advances a detailed critique of the argument based on the impossibility of an actual infinite

Presents a unique analysis of Platonism and of temporal becoming

Draws on very recent and first English translations previously unavailable to scholars

Offers a refreshing discussion of the kalam cosmological argument Advances a detailed critique of the argument based on the impossibility of an actual infinite Presents a unique analysis of Platonism and of temporal becoming Draws on very recent and first English translations previously unavailable to scholars

Autorentext

Jacobus Erasmus is currently a postdoctoral researcher at North-West University, South Africa. He received his PhD in 2016 from North-West University and was awarded the Merit Prize in 2015 by the university's School of Philosophy for superior performance for his doctoral dissertation. Jacobus Erasmus also holds an Honours Degree in IT and he is a part-time computer scientist and programmer. His main research interests include Natural Theology, Philosophy of Religion, and Metaphysics.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Philoponus' Creatio Ex Nihilo Argument.- Chapter 3. Al-Ghazl's Kalam Cosmological Argument.- Chapter 4. The Rise of Set Theory and Modern Cosmology.- Chapter 5. Craig's Kalam Cosmological Argument.- Chapter 6. Problems with the Infinity Argument.- Chapter 7. Philosophical Arguments for a Beginning.- Chapter 8. Can Cosmology Justify Belief in an Eternal Universe?.- Chapter 9. God as the Explanation of the Universe.- Chapter 10. Conclusion.