First Causes: Divine and Human
The paper analyzes the concept of a first cause, both for event causation and for agent causation. It turns out that one is rather ready to believe in the existence of first causes that are events, but not in the existence of first causes that are agents. The paper, however, develops and defends a c...
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 125-140 |
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