Friday, July 15, 2022

The Closure Principle and Plantinga's EAAN

This is more a note for future research:

From William Lane Craig: "The closure principle requires that all physical events have only physical causes. If there do exist immaterial entities, they are irrelevant because of the causal closure of the physical domain. Materialists may embrace or deny the reality of mental states of awareness, but they all deny their causal efficacy in the material world. Plantinga’s argument is therefore best cast as the Evolutionary Argument against the Causal Closure of the Physical (EAACCP).  [. . .]  Is EAACCP successful? I can’t go into the question here, but suffice it to say that on the basis of Andrew Moon’s trenchant analysis of the argument, I am persuaded that Plantinga’s argument is successful."

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