Leibniz Against Fine-Tuning
It appears that I'm going to be getting a bit behind on my Sobel series due to other commitments. Here is some Leibniz to make up for it. One of the problems with those forms of teleological (design) arguments that posit necessary 'gaps' in naturalistic explanation is that they are revisionary with respect to scientific practice: that is, it is a principle of scientific methodology to keep looking for naturalistic explanations no matter what. Now, most philosophers think that taking a revisionary attitude toward scientific practice is bad since the track record of science, on its current methodology, is stellar...
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Albert Einstein
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Christian Huygens
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Del Ratzsch
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Existence of God
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G. W. Leibniz
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Historical Thinkers
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Isaac Newton
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Religion
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Philosophy of Science
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Science
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Teleological Argument
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Tim Maudlin
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The Teleological Argument
While we are
talking a bit about intelligent design, I'd like to take the opportunity to post a little paper I wrote last semester on the teleological argument for the existence of God. The assignment was to give the strongest possible version of the teleological argument, discuss the most important objection, and whether the objection succeeds (and why). The catch: it all had to fit on one page. (This sort of thing is, by the way, a very useful exercise for budding philosophers; I recommend it.) So, without further ado: Teleological arguments for the existence of a divine being attempt to show...
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