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Quentin Smith

Disciplines:
cosmology
theology/philosophy of religion
philosophy of time

Summary

American philosopher who defended the A-theory (tensed) of time and argued that the Big Bang undermines the cosmological argument for God's existence.

Core Contribution

Argued that the universe began to exist without a cause — the Big Bang was a quantum event requiring no prior cause — against the Kalam cosmological argument. Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology (with William Lane Craig): a model debate between A-theory and B-theory.

Notable Works & Achievements

Language and Time

Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology

Historical Influences

A.N. Prior J.M.E. McTaggart

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy of Time

Contemporaries & Peers

William Lane Craig Tim Maudlin

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Philosophy of Cosmology

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