[Questioner] I thank you for joining us. This more of a
picking your brain question from what you
said earlier.
on given that these cosmological arguments have their roots in
rationalistic saw but in your
presentation there seems to be somewhat
of a reliance on
empirical findings. I was curious do you
find yourself to be an empiricist
and if not and you find a lot more to be on
rationalist strain.
Where do you land in terms of logicians
and philosophers of language that you might
endorse or
sympathize with? [Craig] Well I'm not an
empiricist in the sense of thinking that
I'm all knowledge comes through
sense experience. I'm rather partial
to the Kantian idea that the soul
or the mind has a certain categorical
structure to it
that enables it to interpret the data
of sense experience in that it brings this
a priori to experience. Otherwise
experience would be unintelligible. So
 
I would be sort of a rational empiricist I guess in that sense a
combination
of the two. And I think that there
can be a priori knowledge that
isn't
gain simply through sense experience.
But I do
have a tremendous interest, a genuine
interest
in natural science and tremendous
respect for the natural sciences
and so I always like to explore what
does
our empirical investigation of nature
tell us about the question that I'm
working on
and to try to do a synoptic study
that will take into account
the deliverances of the natural
sciences as well as
purely philosophical considerations.
[Questioner] A brief follow up if you aren't some kind of neo-Kantian do you embrace
the transcendental idealism? Or
have you rejected as many...
Have you embraced his transcendental idealism or rejected it?
No no no no, i that would
be one of the criticisms that
I think one would larger comp the where
he says
that the categories do not apply to
things in themselves
and therefore we have no knowledge in
things and so we only
all we know is mere appearances I think
that that is not something that
we should affirm and it is probably
even coherent.
Thank you very much.
