The last 20 years have seen a boom in philosophical work on proving God’s existence, and the progress has accelerated further in recent years. Dr. Koons will describe four of these new proofs briefly: the argument for a supernatural cause of the universe based on the possibility of empirical knowledge, the “Grim Reaper” paradox as a proof of the beginning of time, the analysis of the fine-tuning of the universe for life and scientific discovery, and Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalism.

Dr. Koons is a philosophy professor at UT, specializing in metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of religion. His works include:

Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality (Cambridge Univ., 1997),

Realism Regained (Oxford Univ., 2000),

Metaphysics: The Fundamentals (Wiley-Blackwell,2016),

and The Atlas of Reality (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018).

Dinner starts at 6, and Dr. Koons will begin his talk at 7. This event is free and open to all. Do join us.