DOES GOD EXIST?: Logical Foundations of the Cosmological Argument Publication year: 2008 Cover: Hardcover Number of Pages: 260 p. List Price: $ 50 US ISBN: 978-605-5949-04-4 Table of Contents

The cosmological argument that has deep philosophical and historical roots, especially in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions, is one of the most important arguments for logical, epistemological and methodological discussions about the existence of God.

Among the theological, ontological, moral and teleological arguments for the existence of God there has recently been a significant revival of interest and speculation concerning the cosmological argument. As Hacınebioğlu notes, this is not only due to philosophical discussions of considerable depth and profundity from Plato to Leibnitz, but also due to the recent developments in physics and astronomy, the emergence of the Big Bang theory and related advances in the field of quantum physics, the scientific community, which seems to have moved much closer to the idea of the universe having had a beginning.

Hacınebioğlu, attempts to present a unified framework for understanding the logic of the cosmological argument by expounding its religious context and its philosophical and scientific background as he focuses on three specific approaches to the cosmological argument: Thomistic, Leibnizian and Kalam.

About the author
İsmail Latif Hacınebioğlu (Ph.D., University of Wales, Lampeter, 2001) is Associate Professor of Logic at Süleyman Demirel University in Isparta, Turkey. He is also a visiting scholar of Islamic Philosophy at University of Wales, Trinity College, Carmarthen, UK. His recent publications include Informal Philosophy of Logic, Buddhist Logic Survey (in Turkish, Istanbul 2008).