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God and the Playpen: On the Feasibility of Morally Better Worlds

open access: yesReligions, 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]

open access: yesNazariyat: 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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The contours of free will scepticism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Free will sceptics claim that we lack free will, i.e. the command or control of our conduct that is required for moral responsibility. There are different conceptions of free will: it is sometimes understood as having the ability to choose between real ...
Chevarie-Cossette, Simon-Pierre
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Logical Argument from Evil and Theism

open access: yesReligions, 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

open access: yesFilosofia 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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Can Heaven Justify Horrendous Moral Evils? A Postmortem Autopsy

open access: yesReligions, 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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Novel defense based on softmax activation transformation

open access: yes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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A Consideration of William Hasker's Open Theism Solution to Theological Fatalism [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه 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 South Africa Movement Defense Committee [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
An event flyer hosted by Free South Africa Movement\u27s Defense Committee in Chicago, Illinois to raise funding for Chicagoans who will be tried for trespassing the South African Consulate during an apartheid protest.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/fsa/
Free South Africa Defense Committee
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Evolution and Free Will: A Defense of Darwinian Non-Naturalism

open access: yesMütefekkir, 2014
Otonominin Doğal Seleksiyonu adlı son kitabında, Bruce Waller, "Doğal Otonomi" olarak adlandırdığı bir görüşü savunmaktadır. Bu görüş, insanoğlunun, insan olmayan hayvanlarla paylaştığı, alternatif davranışları keşfetme kabiliyeti olan, fakat ahlaki ...
Nuri ÇİÇEK
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