00:00 Introduction

00:27 Objection to Premise 1 of Kalam Cosmological Argument

01:17 Kalam Cosmological Argument

02:57 Description of Mereological nihilism

04:50 Undercutting defeater vs. rebutting defeater

05:51 First response

09:04 Second response

12:14 Third response

This week's question is, "Are eliminitivist views of material constitution (e.g. mereological nihilism) compatible with inductive arguments supporting the first premise of some formulation of the Kalam Cosmological Argument? There seems to be less inductive support for 'whatever begins to exist has a cause' if there is never a case of something coming to exist by way of an arrangement of particles. Most of our examples of something coming to exist with a cause are things coming into existence by way of arrangements of particles. What do you think?"

My guest is Dr. Josh Rasmussen, a professor of philosophy at Asuza Pacific University.

Link to Josh's article on this topic:
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