Atheism And Theism - Blackwell - Philosophy

Reply to Smart 177

A The general scheme of arguments from world to God

I Cosmological
To a cause of existence
from contingency
(Cf. Aquinas’s Ways 1–3)

II Teleological

To a cause of order

from systematicity

(Cf. Aquinas’s Way 5)

(i) From Regularity (ii) From Directedness

(1)General

causal laws

(2)Specific

fine-tuning

(1)Non-intentional

directedness

(a) living things

(b) reproductive

species

(2)Intentional

directedness

(c) thinking

agents

B The particular scheme

I Phenomenal States

Qualitative – involving sensory

modes of presentation

II Intentional States

Representational – involving

conceptual modes of presentation

The source of the sensory?

(i)Innate?

(a) General worries about evolution
(b) Specific worries about innatism (1)Individual

abstraction

(2) Social

induction

(a) anti-abstraction

arguments

(b) power of concept-

formation is

unexplained

(a) potentiality

still required

(b) power of the

community is

unexplained

Problems

Problems

The source of the conceptual?

(i)Innate? (ii)Acquired?

Figure 4.1