The Copernican principle, intelligent extraterrestrials, and arguments from evil
The physicist Richard Gott defends the Copernican principle, which claims that when we have no information about our position along a given dimension among a group of observers, we should consider ourselves to be randomly located among those observers in respect to that dimension. First, I apply Cop...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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Religious studies
Jahr: 2019, Band: 55, Heft: 3, Seiten: 297-317 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Weltall
/ Das Böse
/ Verbreitung
/ Außerirdische Intelligenz
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The physicist Richard Gott defends the Copernican principle, which claims that when we have no information about our position along a given dimension among a group of observers, we should consider ourselves to be randomly located among those observers in respect to that dimension. First, I apply Copernican reasoning to the distribution of evil in the universe. I then contend that evidence for intelligent extraterrestrial life strengthens four important versions of the argument from evil. I remain neutral regarding whether this result is a reductio of these arguments from evil or the statement of a genuine evidential relationship. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412518000045 |