Atheism and Theism JJ Haldane - Common Sense Atheism

argument, from contingency, 32–43, 86
from religious experience, 43–7
propter quid, 127–8
quia, 127–30, 133
to best explanation, 22, 25, 27, 30,
35, 39–40, 76, 82–3, 173, 247
to design, 12, 20–3, 27, 43, 69, 83,
86–7, 89, 108–9, 111–16, 135,
165, 176, 213–15, 224, 226–8,
230, 233–4, 244
arguments, synopsis of, 177
Aristotelianism, 90–1, 99, 103, 130–1,
139–40, 161, 165, 167, 172, 181,
197
Aristotle, 42, 86, 127
Armstrong, D.M., 41, 158
‘as if ’ talk, 13–15, 27, 45, 59–60, 85,
109, 165
atheism a priori, 127, 188–9, 204–8
atheism simpler than theism, 23–4,
42–3, 50–1, 69, 78, 155, 159,
171–3, 180, 210–11, 215
atheism, vagueness of, 3, 198
atheist theologians, 3, 9, 15, 27–8, 70,
79, 81, 184, 189–90, 207–8, 223
Augustine, St, 190, 245, 247
Austin, J.L., 63
Austin, M.C., 17
axiarchic principle, 14, 26–32, 43, 201,
212–13
existence of, 30, 43
axiarchism, difficulties for, 27–31
Barnes, E.W., 152
Barnes, J., 33–4
basic entities, 9, 12, 84, 87–8, 90–1,
96–8, 101, 106, 109–10, 115, 154,
172–3, 176, 178, 196–7
Baur, F., 55
Bayesianism, 212–13, 215
beauty, criterion of truth, 26, 28,
215–16
beginning of existence, 123–5, 200–1,
209
behaviour, 101
Index 259
‘behaviour’, meaning of term, 99
behaviourism, 84–5, 176
Behe, M.J., 213–14, 225–6
beliefs and desires, 63, 84, 96, 98,
100–1, 156–7, 167, 181, 230
beliefs, coherence of, 18, 46, 52–3,
55–8, 69, 153, 184, 207
beneficial order, 89–91, 126
Bentham, J., 25
Berkeley, G., 27, 213, 232, 235–40
big bang theory, 7, 20, 36, 42, 160,
210–11
Bigelow, J., 41, 204
biology, 10–13, 22, 88, 91, 95–6,
109, 116, 146, 154, 159, 165, 178,
213–14, 224–7
black holes, 36, 42, 209
‘body’, ambiguity of, 227–8
Boethius, 43
Bolingbroke, Lord, 8
Bonaventure, St, 122
Boolos, G., 41
Borg, M.J., 217
Bradley, F.H., 14, 55–7, 212
brain as computer, 40, 63, 155–6
brainwashing, 47–50
Brandon, S.G.F., 58, 185, 187–8
Brouwer, L.E.J., 206
Browning, R., 5
brute fact, 109, 111–12, 123, 125–6,
152, 214
Burgess, J., 41
Butler, Bishop, 85
Caiaphas, 187–8
Cairns-Smith, A.G., 214
Calvinism, 202, 213
Campbell, C.A., 14
Cantor, G., 65
Carter, B., 16–21, 33, 38, 68, 70, 163,
210
Catherine of Siena, St, 190
causal realism, 123, 163, 196
causal series, intrinsic, 122–3, 126
causality, as contextual, 163, 172, 196