A New Kalam Argument: Revenge of the Grim Reaper

A New Kalam Argument: Revenge of the Grim Reaper

The Kalam argument (Craig 1979) is an attempt to establish the existence of a first cause by first demonstrating that time itself had a beginning. Kalam defenders appeal to the causal principle that everything that begins to exist had a cause of its existence. This paper provides a new way of arguin...

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Veröffentlicht in:Noûs (Bloomington, Indiana) Indiana), 2014-06, Vol.48 (2), p.256-267
1. Verfasser: Koons, Robert C.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Aristotelianism
Causality
Infinite series
Infinity
Locomotion
Mereology
Metaphysics
Modal realism
Paradoxes
Philosophy
Spacetime
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Zusammenfassung:The Kalam argument (Craig 1979) is an attempt to establish the existence of a first cause by first demonstrating that time itself had a beginning. Kalam defenders appeal to the causal principle that everything that begins to exist had a cause of its existence. This paper provides a new way of arguing for the beginning of time, building on Benardete's Grim Reaper paradox and appealing to a version of David Lewis's 'patchwork principles' of modal metaphysics.
ISSN:0029-4624
1468-0068
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0068.2012.00858.x