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Video Sources on the Cosmological Argument

Below are some useful links on different versions of the cosmological argument:

Kalam argument:

Reasonable Faith video: 'The Kalam Cosmological Argument'.

William Lane Craig's 'The Kalam Cosmological Argument: Plantinga Conference 2014'.

William Lane Craig's 'The Kalam Cosmological Argument'.

William Lane Craig's 'Excursus on Natural Theology, Part 8: The Kalam Cosmological Argument'.

William Lane Craig's 'Excursus on Natural Theology, Part 9: 1st Philosophical Argument for the Beginning of the Universe'.

William Lane Craig's 'Excursus on Natural Theology, Part 10: 2nd Philosophical Argument for the Beginning of the Universe'.

William Lane Craig's 'Excursus on Natural Theology, Part 11: 1st Scientific Confirmation of the Beginning of the Universe, Part 1'.

William Lane Craig's 'Excursus on natural Theology, Part 12: 1st Scientific Confirmation of the Beginning of the Universe, Part 2'.

William Lane Craig's 'Excursus on Natural Theology, Part 13: 2nd Scientific Confirmation of the Beginning of the Universe'.

William Lane Craig's 'Top 10 Worst Objections to the Kalam Cosmological Argument'.

William Lane Craig's 'Has Stephen Hawking Eliminated the Need for a Creator?'

William Lane Craig and Sean Caroll's 'God and Cosmology' (debate).

James Sinclair's 'Cosmology and Cosmologists within the 'Does God Exist?' Question' (comment on debate).

Contingency argument:

Reasonable Faith video: 'Leibniz's Contingency Argument'.

Alexander Pruss' 'Implications of Cosmology for the Philosophy of Religion, Part 1'.

Alexander Pruss' 'Implications of Cosmology for the Philosophy of Religion, Part 2'.

William Lane Craig's 'The Argument from Contingency, Part 1'.

William Lane Craig's 'The Argument from Contingency, Part 2'.

Aristotelian-Thomistic argument:

Robert Barron's 'Thomas Aquinas and the Argument from Motion'.

Peter Kreeft's 'The Thomist Cosmological Argument'.

Edward Feser's 'An Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God'.

Edward Feser's 'Faith and Reason, Day 1' (provides metaphysical background to Aquinas' Five Ways).

Edward Feser's 'Faith and Reason, Day 2' (outlines Aquinas' Five Ways).

Stephen M. Barr's 'Modern Physics, the Beginning and Creation'.

As far as I am aware, there are no video lectures discussing the Neo-Platonic version of the cosmological argument. In fact, discussion of this argument (even in academic historical discussions of philosophy) is rare. However, a short podcast discussing Plotinus' philosophy of 'the One' (i.e., God) is available. This is purely a historical discussion, rather than a defense of the argument or Plotinus' philosophy.

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