Cadbury Lectures 2015. 2: 'The Challenge of Platonism' delivered by Professor William Lane Craig

2015 Edward Cadbury Lectures 'God Over All' delivered by Professor William Lane Craig (Talbot School of Theology and Houston Baptist University; PhD University of Birmingham 1977). Hosted by the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham. Lecture 2 'The Challenge of Platonism': The most significant challenge to the doctrine of divine aseity is contemporary Platonism, the view that there exist eternal, necessary, uncreated, abstract objects, such as mathematical objects. The main argument for Platonism is the so-called Indispensability Argument, according to which our use of first-order logical quantifiers and singular terms in sentences we take to be true commits us ontologically to the reality of the objects quantified over or referred to. Since there are obviously mathematical truths like 2+2 = 4, we are committed ontologically to abstract objects. Learn more: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/philosoph...