Alex Byrne on Contemporary Debate About the Existence of God
The latest edition of
the Boston Review is running an article by MIT philosopher Alex Byrne on the state of philosophical debate about
the existence of God. For a popular article, it is in many ways quite good. It focuses on the ontological argument and the teleological argument (although it doesn't consider versions of the latter like
the one I advocate), which are probably the two most interesting of the traditional arguments, and it has interesting things to say about each of them. I do, however, have a few complaints.
First, early in the article we find this colorful phrase...
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