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- Title
MULTIPLE UNIVERSES AND THE FINE-TUNING ARGUMENT: A RESPONSE TO RODNEY HOLDER.
- Authors
ROTA, MICHAEL
- Abstract
In this article I examine a common objection to the fine-tuning argument (an objection which may be referred to as the atheistic many universes (AMU) objection). A reply to this objection due to Roger White has been the subject of much controversy; White's reply has been criticized by Rodney Holder, on the one hand, and Neil Manson and Michael Thrush on the other. In this paper I analyze Holder's work in an effort to determine whether the AMU objection successfully defeats the fine-tuning argument. I conclude that the fine-tuning argument can be reformulated so as to avoid the AMU objection.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY; LOGIC; PHILOSOPHERS; THEORY of knowledge; METAPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL logic; JUDGMENT (Logic); RELATION (Philosophy); UNIVERSALS (Philosophy); LOGICAL positivism
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2005, Vol 86, Issue 4, p556
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0114.2005.00242.x