12- Answers to Some Questions about My Position on the Arguments for the Existence of God
I received an email from Dr. Eugeny Loginov in which he asked me to answer some questions about his project on finding the positions of famous philosophers on the arguments for the existence of God as follows:
Dear Professor Ayatollahy,
My name is, I work for the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies and the Faculty of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
I'm preparing a book about the arguments for and against the existence of God. The idea of the book is to publish what different philosophers think about 6 questions about the existence of God. Most of the contributors specialize in the philosophy of religion but not all, some of them are metaphysicians, moral philosophers, epistemologists, historians of philosophy, or logicians. I want to present the whole and diverse picture about this classical issue and make some empirical bases to answer the questions about what is up today in this field and what is not. I want first to publish the Russian version of the book and then if it will be possible to publish the English one. Now 172 philosophers have already participated in the project. Among them are quite famous people such as Daniel Dennett, Vadim Vasilyev, Richard Swinburne, Graham Harman, Peter van Inwagen, Linda Zagzebski, John Milbank, as well as novice authors.
Maybe you would be so kind to join the project? May I ask you a few questions about the topic?
The followings are the questions along with my answers about my position in this field: