The Argument from Consciousness and Divine Consciousness

In: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 157-179

Abstract

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.