Four (Or So) New Fine-Tuning Arguments
Both proponents and opponents of the argument for the deliberate fine-tuning, by an intelligent agent, of the fundamental constants of the universe have accepted certain assumptions about how the argument will go. These include both treating the fine-tuning of the constants as constitutive of the na...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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[2016]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Ano: 2016, Volume: 8, Número: 2, Páginas: 85-106 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Cosmologia
/ Constante física
/ Desenho inteligente
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| Classificações IxTheo: | AB Filosofia da religião |
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| Resumo: | Both proponents and opponents of the argument for the deliberate fine-tuning, by an intelligent agent, of the fundamental constants of the universe have accepted certain assumptions about how the argument will go. These include both treating the fine-tuning of the constants as constitutive of the nature of the universe itself and conditioning on the fact that the constants actually do fall into the life-permitting range, rather than on the narrowness of the range. It is also generally assumed that the fine-tuning argument should precede biological arguments for design from, e.g., the origin of life. I suggest four new arguments, two of which are different orderings of the same data. Each of these abandons one or more of the common assumptions about how the fine-tuning argument should go, and they provide new possibilities for answering or avoiding objections to the fine-tuning argument. |
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| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v8i2.59 |