Feser's "The Road From Atheism"

I thought I would summarize the main points of Edward Feser's conversion from atheism to theism. I may explore these in more detail point-by-point over time.

• Atheism caused not by the argument from evil, but by the evidentialist objection: there is no (good) evidence for the existence of God.

• The difference between the theistic personalism of modern evangelicals etc, and classical theism. He still thinks theistic personalism (God as a magical sky wizard) is implausible. Classical theism (God as existence itself) is more plausible.

• The content of propositions are not identifiable with the sentences that express it, or dispositions, or psychological states, etc (i.e., some form of Platonic realism is true).

• Materialism of the mind is hopeless (John Searle's Rediscovery of the Mind)

• Russell's view that matter is more problematic than mind, because we are intimately familiar with mind but not matter, and...

• ...physics cannot be the whole story, because physics gives you only the abstract structure of matter

• Mind cannot be assimilated to matter if one wants to avoid panpsychism.

• Naturalist theories of "aboutness" are impossible

• "Classical" problems in philosophy are caused by anti-Aristotelianism, and most modern atheist moves presuppose these assumptions

• Aristotelianism seems much more plausible, especially as a solution to all the "classical" philosophical problems.

• Leibnizian cosmological arguments that say the universe must have an explanation. To disagree with this is less plausible and more rhetorical than it is well-argued.

• Most philosophers are way off base when treating Aquinas' arguments for the existence of God.