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Analytic Philosophy and the Existence of God

many of the resources used can be found here

1. 9 Nov 9.30 Introduction: The Argument from Miracles and Hume's Objections

2. 16 Nov 9.30 The Cosmological Argument

3. 23 Nov 9.00 The Ontological Argument

4. 30 Nov 9.30 The Argument from Design / Cosmological Fine Tuning

an introductory text by Brian Davies
an article by Roger White (if you are getting tired, stop after the first full paragraph of p. 32) -- that's where the questions stop, and we will look at the rest in class together.
questions on Google Form, sent independently
your responses, perhaps edited

5. 7 Dec 9.30 Cumulative Probabilities and Richard Swinburne

a good review of Swinburne's book, the basis of the Google Form
your answers
some pages from Swinburne's book Is There a God?
a video of Swinburne in action
a longer video
an essay by Herbert McCabe outlining another approach (extracted version here), making allusion to
John Wisdom's parable of the gardener, and Flew's complaint about the death of a thousand qualifications

6. 14 Dec 9.30 A Wittgensteinian Approach: D. Z. Phillips