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Abu al-Barakat al-Baghdadi on Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2020 The present paper aims to explore the medieval philosopher Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s (d. pre-560 AH/1164-5) position concerning the problem of divine foreknowledge and human free will and argues Abū al-Barakāt to have considered the argument for ...
Mariam Shehata
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Logical Argument from Evil and Theism
Religions, 2022 The article argues that the logical argument from evil is dead, and the new version presented by James Sterba cannot resurrect it. In the first part, I say that the logical argument from evil is dead either because, in the version given by Mackie, it was
Andrea Aguti
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God, evil and the metaphysics of freedom
Filosofia Unisinos, 2021 This paper is a translation to Portuguese of the ninth chapter of Alvin Plantinga’s 1974 book The Nature of Necessity, in which the famous freewill defense for the problem of evil is presented in its most complete form.
André Nascimento Pontes +1 more
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Novel defense based on softmax activation transformation
网络与信息安全学报, 2022 Deep learning is widely used in various fields such as image processing, natural language processing, network mining and so on.However, it is vulnerable to malicious adversarial attacks and many defensive methods have been proposed accordingly.Most ...
Jinyin CHEN, Changan WU, Haibin ZHENG
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Can Heaven Justify Horrendous Moral Evils? A Postmortem Autopsy
Religions, 2023 James Sterba has recently constructed a new and compelling logical problem of evil that rejects Plantinga’s free-will defense and employs the concept of significant freedom and the Pauline Principle to demonstrate an incompatibility between the existence
Asha Lancaster-Thomas
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A Consideration of William Hasker's Open Theism Solution to Theological Fatalism [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2018 William Hasker is one of the most important figures of open theism. The main characteristic of open theism is the denial of the divine foreknowledge to free actions in the future.
Fatemeh Ghalkhanbaz +2 more
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A Wittgensteinian Antitheodicy
Religions, 2022 Contrary to the majority of contemporary analytic philosophers of religion, James Sterba argues in his book Is a Good God Logically Possible? (2019) that Alvin Plantinga with his famous free will defense has not succeeded in solving the logical problem ...
Timo Koistinen
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Design and Simulate a New Defense System of Free Electron Laser DSFEL [PDF]
Engineering and Technology Journal, 2017 As a result of rapid progress in the development of offensive weapons, it became necessary to build up an effective defense system against these technically advanced weapons.
Thair A. Al-Aish, Rasheed L. Jawad
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A Comparative Study of Mulla Sadra and Plantinga’s Views on the Issue of Evil [PDF]
Comparative TheologyIn the tradition of Islamic philosophy, Mulla Sadra, one of the mystical philosophers, and in Western philosophical thought, Alvin Plantinga, a theistic philosopher, have both explored the issue of evil with distinct foundations and solutions.
Masoumeh Ameri, Farida Rezaei
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A DEFENSE OF BUDDHISM, MEDITATION, AND FREE WILL: A THEORY OF MENTAL FREEDOM
Zygon, 2020 This is my response to the criticisms of Gregg Caruso, David Cummiskey, and Karin Meyers, in their roles as members of the “Author Meets Critics” panel devoted to my book, Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will: A Theory of Mental Freedom at the 2019 ...
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