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What the Fall of Angels Tells Us about the Essence of Morality

Religions, 2021
The article describes two concepts of the sources of morality present in the evolutionist traditions (Evolution of Ethics and the Veneer Theory). Then, a modal argument against the evolutionist theory of morality is presented, based on the history of the
Martyna Koszkało, Robert Koszkało
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Now, Again and Again: The Metaphysics of Many Presents

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper discusses whether there can be multiple present moments. After presenting some reasons for thinking that the question is worthwhile, I challenge several objections to its possibility: worries about the exclusivity of tense; the nature of change, tense logic and semantics; and the apparent tension between multiple presents and an ...
Nikk Effingham
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Theism and Mathematical Realism [PDF]

, 2001
This paper examines connections between theism and mathematical realism. Mathematical realism, which offers the best account of mathematics, strongly supports theism. Theism, in turn, supports mathematical realism.
Byl, John
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Liberating God: Classical Theism and Political Spirituality [PDF]

Accounts of spirituality are incomplete unless they take into account what I term political spirituality, the working out of religiously motivated political commitment.
Hewitt, S., Simon
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An Examination and Critique of Paul Draper’s View on the Problem of Evil [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī
Paul Draper is one of the most sophisticated contemporary defenders of the evidential argument from evil. In his seminal 1989 paper “Pain and Pleasure: An Evidential Problem for Theists,” he argues that the observed distribution and intensity of ...
Seyyed Mohsen Hashemi, Mohammad Mohammad Rezaei   +1 more
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Room for Improvement: Why Finitist Arguments Do Not Check Out

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine several new and underexplored arguments for the finitude of the past and the impossibility of Hilbert's Hotel. The first argument concludes that Hilbert's Hotel is impossible due to an alleged contradiction arising from the causal powers of infinitely many guests.
Joseph C. Schmid, Troy Dana
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No History Without a Method: Anticipation and Other Bad Contexts

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues for the centrality of methodological awareness in writing the history of philosophy. It does this by analysing and comparing different interpretive proposals presented by those engaged with past philosophical texts. Taking the literature on Thomas Hobbes from past and present century as an example, it shows the merits of ...
Ieva Höhne
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Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
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Must Longtermists Wish Us All Dead? A Quadrilemma

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 5, Page 1233-1255, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Longtermists assign great moral importance to making the long‐term future as good as possible, especially by ensuring the survival of humanity. We argue, to the contrary, that on assumptions that are plausible, conservative, or shared by leading longtermists, human extinction will likely augment total utility among human and non‐human animals ...
Nir Eyal, Bastian Steuwer, Shai Meiri
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Neoclassical Theism and the Problem of Foreknowledge and Passibility

TheoLogica
Though it is often not recognized, there are multiple models of God being affirmed and debated throughout the history of philosophical theology. In contemporary discussion, we have developed labels for these models such as classical theism, neoclassical
Ryan T. Mullins
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