Travis DumsdayCorresponding author

Can Causal Chains Extend Back Infinitely?
Entailment, Determinism, and a Cosmological Argument

Article
19/2 - Fall 2014, pages 193-208
Date of online publication: 05 août 2015
Date of publication: 30 décembre 2014

Abstract

 I develop a new argument to the effect that past causal chains cannot extend back infinitely, but must instead terminate in a first uncaused cause (or causes). It has the advantage of sidestepping a historically prominent objection to cosmological arguments of this general type, one levelled by Aquinas and various other Scholastics.

Cite this article

Dumsday, Travis. “Can Causal Chains Extend Back Infinitely? Entailment, Determinism, and a Cosmological Argument.” Forum Philosophicum 19, no. 2 (2014): 193–208. doi:10.35765/forphil.2014.1902.10.