Richard Swinburne

Richard Swinburne presents a substantially rewritten and updated edition of his most celebrated book. No other work has made a more powerful case for the probability of the existence of God. Swinburne gives a rigorous and penetrating analysis of the most important arguments for theism: the cosmological argument; arguments from the existence of laws of nature and the 'fine-tuning' of the universe; from the occurrence of consciousness and moral awareness; and from miracles and religious experience. He claims that while none of these arguments are deductively valid, they do give inductive support to theism and that, even when the argument from evil is weighed against them, taken together they offer good grounds to support the probability that there is a God. The overall structure of the discussion and its conclusion have been retained for this new edition, but much has been changed in order to strengthen the argumentation and to take account of Swinburne's subsequent work on the nature of consciousness and the problem of evil, and of the latest philosophical and scientific writing, especially in respect of the laws of nature and the argument from fine-tuning.This is now the definitive version of a classic in the philosophy of religion.

Fe y razón se publicó por primera vez en 1981 como el volumen tercero de una trilogía sobre la filosofía del teísmo. Vino a completar las tesis defendidas en La coherencia del teísmo, donde Swinburne trata de mostrar que la afirmacion de que existeun Dios es internamente coherente y que es apropiado buscar evidencia de su verdad. Y las desarrolladas en La existencia de Dios (publicada por editorial San Esteban en español), donde el profesor de Oxford evalua la fuerza de los distintos argumentosa favor y en contra de la existencia de Dios, y concluye que es mas probable que improbable que Dios exista.

«Frente a Dawkins y Hawking, Swinburne». Este titular provocativo sintetiza una de las polémicas más atractivas de la actualidad. La existencia de Dios ha sido puesta en cuestión de forma beligerante

Es la obra más representativa del pensamiento de Richard Swinburne y un clásico en la filosofía contemporánea. La presente traducción se ha real