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Compatibilism and the Free Will Defense [PDF]
, 2016 There’s a longstanding and widely endorsed argument that the free will defense is inconsistent with compatibilist views of free will. Indeed, Alvin Plantinga—the originator of the contemporary free will defense—claims that it’s obvious the free will ...
Almeida, Mike
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Evil, Free Will Defenses, And Aquinas
, 2019 The main purpose of this thesis is to reconcile a free-will defense with Thomas Aquinas’ metaphysics. The Free-Will Defense is an attempt at answering the logical problem of evil, which states that the existence of God and the existence of evil are ...
Stacey, Marc
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God and the Playpen: On the Feasibility of Morally Better Worlds
Religions, 2021 According to the free will defense, God cannot create a world with free creatures, and hence a world with moral goodness, without allowing for the possibility of evil.
Cheryl K. Chen
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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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Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience [PDF]
, 2019 This book aims to show that recent developments in neuroscience permit a defense of free will. Through language, human beings can escape strict biological determinism.
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