RT Article
T1 Ockham on the Side of the Angels: Why a Classical Theist Shouldn't be Moved by Oppy's Argument from Simplicity
JF New blackfriars
VO 104
IS 1110
SP 190
OP 194
A1 McNabb, Tyler
A1 DeVito, Michael
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1838062521
AB A common argument put forth by naturalists (including the prominent philosopher Graham Oppy) in support of naturalism as a worldview over theism, is to claim that naturalism is a simpler hypothesis. Theism posits the existence of everything that naturalism does, plus the existence of a theistic realm. Thus, all things being equal, via Ockham's Razor, naturalism should be preferred to theism. In this essay, we argue that the Classical Theist need not worry about the naturalist's Simplicity argument. Specifically, we argue that, the one holding to a scholastic metaphysics (i.e., potency-act distinction, participatory metaphysics, and existence-in-degree), in the end, will be the one with the simpler worldview.
K1 Classical Theism
K1 Simplicity
K1 Oppy
K1 Theism
K1 Naturalism
DO 10.1111/nbfr.12766