In God We Trust. Or Why This Argument for Causal Finitism Should Not Convince Theists

Faith and Philosophy (forthcoming)
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Causal finitism claims nothing can have an infinite causal history. An influential defense of this position uses infinity paradoxes to argue that, if causal finitism is false, several impossible scenarios would be possible. In this paper, I defend that theists should not be persuaded by this argument. If true, this is an important development, since causal finitism is often argued for by theists as a core premise in Kalam-style cosmological arguments for theism. I extend the same analysis to an argument in favor of temporal finitism and conclude that my point may generalize to any reasoning of a similar structure.

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Enric F. Gel
Universitat de Barcelona (PhD)

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