Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. About the Professor: Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in […]
[The text of William Paley’s famous analogy is below (and here is a PDF version). Here is my video-lecture discussion of the traditional Argument from Design. And my article-length discussion of the argument is posted here.] William Paley The Watch and the Watchmaker [From Natural Theology, or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the
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From Part 2 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course. Here he presents one of the classic arguments for the existence of God and the consequent counter arguments over its strength. Clips 1-8: Previous: Comparing the two stories. Next: The argument from evil. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main
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