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Oppy on Thomistic cosmological arguments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2021

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EDWARD FESER*
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Social Sciences Division, Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91106, USA
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Abstract

Graham Oppy has criticized several Thomistic versions of the cosmological argument in a series of publications over the years, most recently in a Religious Studies article responding to my book Five Proofs of the Existence of God. Here I reply to his criticisms, arguing that while Oppy raises important issues, a besetting weakness of his approach is a failure adequately to grapple with the metaphysical underpinnings of the arguments.

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Religious Studies , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , September 2021 , pp. 503 - 522
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