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In his search for unassailable knowledge, Descartes reaches in his first Meditation a hurdle in the form of his deceiving demon thought experiment. The demon Descartes imagines is one who deceives him about ...

The logical problem of evil is usually cast as an argument for the logical inconsistency of a number of claims that traditional theism holds. These include the claims: 1) God exists 2) God is omnipotent 3) G...

Falsification Theory is a Philosophical method created by Karl Popper to separate science from pseudo-science. Popper saw a distingtion between the works of scientists like Einstein and Newton, and the works...

The Watch Analogy In order to explain his teleological argument, Paley offers an analogy of finding a watch on a heath. He argues thusly: you find a watch on an abandoned heath, far from any human interactio...

Firstly, we must begin with what Hume defines miracles as. Hume states that a miracle is “a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity or by the interposition of some invisible ag...