Theistic arguments from the reliability of our cognitive faculties
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https://doi.org/10.26512/2358-82842015e17381Keywords:
Theistic arguments. Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism. Reliability. Cognitive faculties.Abstract
Alvin Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism (henceforth EAAN) is an argument for the conclusion that the conjunction of naturalism and evolutionary theory is self-defeating and cannot be rationally believed. Although the EAAN is not a straightforward argument in favor of theism, it doesn’t seem difficult to derive from the material used to defend its premises an argument in defense of the existence of God. The goal of this paper is to explore how theistic arguments from the reliability of our cognitive faculties can be formulated from the material presented by Plantinga in his defenses of the EAAN. I begin by presenting the most recent formulation of the EAAN. I then explore the possibility of formulating arguments based on inference to the best explanation, deductive arguments, and inductive ones.
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