Open AccessThe Argument from Consciousness and Divine Consciousness
Author(s) -
Thomas Schärtl
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
european journal for philosophy of religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 1689-8311
DOI - 10.24204/ejpr.v5i1.254
Subject(s) - consciousness , argument (complex analysis) , materialism , epistemology , perspective (graphical) , theism , interpretation (philosophy) , electromagnetic theories of consciousness , philosophy , psychology , cognitive science , computer science , artificial intelligence , linguistics , chemistry , biochemistry
The paper aims for an improvement of the so-called argument from consciousness while focusing on the first-person-perspective as a unique feature of consciousness that opens the floor for a theistic explanation. As a side effect of knowledge arguments, which are necessary to keep a posterior materialism off bounds, the paper proposes an interpretation of divine knowledge as knowledge of things rather than knowledge of facts.