10/27/2008

theist in the narrow, vs. the broad sense
G. E. Moore shift
friendly atheism
theism vs. naturalism
evidential argument
evolution
antecedent probability
special creationism
evolutionary naturalism vs. evolutionary theism

10/24/2008

modus ponens
formally contradictory set
explicitly contradictory set
broadly logical necessity
causal or natural necessity
implicitly contradictory set
free-will theodicy vs. free-will defense
possible world
the book on W
complete state of affairs
Leibniz's Lapse
transworld depravity

10/22/2008

first-order evil vs. second-order evil
the paradox of omnipotence
paradox of sovereignty
all or nothing
it could be worse
slippery slope

10/20/2008

Augustinian vs. Irenaean tradition
Bios, Zoe

10/17/2008

felix culpa
absolute vs. conditional necessity
antecedent and consequent wills
best possible world

10/15/2008

atheologian
moral vs. natural evil
free will defense
theodicy (vs. defense)

10/8/2008

possible worlds
natural atheology
 

10/6/2008

God's essential omniscience

10/3/2008

sempiternity
timeless eternity
sempiternalist vs. atemporalist
ominitemporal

10/1/2008

eternity
timelessness vs. everlastingness
timeless eternity vs. temporal eternity
temporal location
temporal extension
temporally eternal being
 

9/26/2008

strong-justification thesis
weak-justification thesis
mystical experience
religious experience
checkability-predictability criterion
 

9/24/2008

necessary but insufficient condition
necessary and sufficient condition
 

9/22/2008

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
threefold task of the gods
Moira
illusion
delusion

9/18/2008

weak justification
mystical experience
religious experience
mystical states of consciousness
the mystical group
orison
diabolical mysticism
faith state/anhedonia
over-beliefs

9/15/2008

regularities of co-presence
argument from spatial order
regularities of succession
argument from temporal order
C-inductive argument
P-inductive argument
argument from beauty
 

9/12/2008

William Paley (1743-1805)
David Hume (1711-1776)
the teleological argument
analogy
design

9/10/2008

the kalam cosmological argument
the Thomist cosmological argument
the Leibnizian cosmological argument
the Copenhagen interpretation
the B-theory of time vs. the A-theory of time
actual infinite vs. potential infinite
Hilbert's hotel
Zeno's paradox
the big bang model
the singularity
second law of thermodynamics
argument from contingency
fallacy of equivocation

9/8/2008

a posteriori/a priori
dependent being/self-existing being
deductive validity
sound argument
Principle of Sufficient Reason
brute fact

9/2/2008

cosmological argument
contingent
first-cause argument
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
potentiality/actuality
efficient causes
possibility/necessity
Samuel Clarke (1675-1729)

8/29/2008

St. Anselm (1033-1109)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
ontological argument
Demonstration
a priori / a posteriori
theism
sound vs. valid argument
reductio ad absurdum
contradictory/contradiction
subject/predicate
ens realissimum
tautology
analytic vs. synthetic