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Circular Explanations, Cosmological Arguments, and Sufficient Reasons

Midwest Studies in Philosophy 21 (1):188-201 (1997)

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Infinity and the past.Quentin Smith - 1987 - Philosophy of Science 54 (1):63-75.details infinite, and offer several arguments in sup port of this thesis. I believe their arguments are unsuccessful and aim to refute six of them in the six sections of the paper. One of my main criticisms concerns their supposition that an infinite series of past events must contain some events separated from the present event by an infinite number of intermediate events, and consequently that from one of these infinitely distant past events the present could never have been reached. I (...) introduce.. (shrink) Download Export citation Bookmark 10 citations
Explanatory Rationalism and Contingent Truths.Quentin Smith - 1995 - Religious Studies 31 (2):237 - 242.details This paper extends the orthodox bounds of explanatory rationalism by showing there can be an explanation of why there are positive contingent truths. A positive contingent truth is a true proposition that entails that at least one contingent concrete object exists. It is widely thought that it is impossible to explain why there are positive contingent truths. For example, it is thought by Rowe that 'God created the universe' is a positive contingent truth and therefore cannot explain why there are (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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