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Swinburne's explanation of the universe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1998

QUENTIN SMITH
QUENTIN SMITH
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008-5022
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Abstract

Richard Swinburne, Is There a God? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. vii+144.

Swinburne's Is There A God? presents a brief, updated version of his book, The Existence of God, in which Swinburne argued that criteria used in scientific reasoning could be used to argue that God probably exists. This new book is designed for a wider audience than professional philosophers. Nonetheless, there much that is new and of interest to philosophers in Is There a God? For example, there is a discussion of Stephen Hawking's cosmology, some new ideas in the philosophy of mind, and a new way of formulating the argument that theism is a simpler explanation of the universe than is materialism.

Type
Review Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 1998 , pp. 91 - 102
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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