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Has James Sterba Established a Logical Argument from Evil or Just a Very Good Evidential One?

open access: yesReligions, 2023
James Sterba’s new treatise advancing a logical argument from evil against the existence of God fails in one respect and succeeds in another. As with all claimants to having found such a thing before him, Sterba fails in properly achieving a logical ...
Richard Carrier
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Sterba’s Problem of Evil vs. Sterba’s Problem of Specificity: Which Is the Real Problem?

open access: yesReligions, 2022
In 2019 the noted ethicist and political philosopher James Sterba published a new deductive version of the argument from the problem of evil to the conclusion that an Anselmian God does not exist.
Michael S Jones
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Defending the Free Will Defense: A Reply to Sterba

open access: yesReligions, 2022
James Sterba has recently argued that the free will defense fails to explain the compossibility of a perfect God and the amount and degree of moral evil that we see. I think he is mistaken about this.
Luis Oliveira
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Creator Theology and Sterba’s Argument from Evil

open access: yesReligions, 2022
In this paper, I reformulate Sterba’s argument from evil and consider the various ways theists might respond to it. There are two basic families of responses. On the one hand, theists can deny that God, as a perfect being, needs to act in accordance with
Joe Milburn
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Uma leitura crítica do biocentrismo de Paul Taylor a partir de James Sterba

open access: yesEthic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2012
Este artigo analisa a proposta biocêntrica encontrada no artigo “A Biocentrist Strikes Back” (Um biocentrista revida), de James Sterba, que se propõe a defender o biocentrismo de três acusações: de que favorece a espécie humana em detrimento das demais,
Carmelita Schulze
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Can Ethics Exist Without God? A Thomistic Critique of James Sterba’s Axiomatic Morality

open access: yesReligions
This essay explores the question: can we have an objective ethics without God? This question is raised by James Sterba, who argues in the affirmative. As an atheistic ethicist, Sterba is motivated to maintain an objective morality that is not based in ...
Joseph Brian Huffling
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Is There a Right to Hope That God Exists? Evil and the Principle of Non-Parity

open access: yesReligions, 2022
In this paper, I respond to James Sterba’s recent book ‘Is a Good God Logically Possible?’ I show that Sterba concludes that God is not logically possible by ignoring three important issues: (a) the different functions of leeway indeterminism (and the ...
Jacqueline Mariña
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Pharmacokinetics of hydroxychloroquine in paediatric lupus: data from a novel, direct-to-family clinical trial [PDF]

open access: yesLupus Science and Medicine, 2022
Objective Determine the pharmacokinetics (PK) and exposure–response of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and desethylhydroxychloroquine (DHCQ) in paediatric SLE (pSLE).Methods We conducted an exploratory phase 2, direct-to-family trial.
E Schmitt   +534 more
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Consumption of Health-Related Videos and Human Papillomavirus Awareness: Cross-Sectional Analyses of a US National Survey and YouTube From the Urban-Rural Context [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Medical Internet Research
BackgroundNearly 70% of Americans use the internet as their first source of information for health-related questions. Contemporary data on the consumption of web-based videos containing health information among American adults by ...
Ashvita Garg   +11 more
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Disease activity trajectories in paediatric lupus and associations with socioeconomic factors and patient-reported pain [PDF]

open access: yesLupus Science and Medicine
Objective Using data from participants with paediatric SLE (pSLE) in the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry, we aimed to: (1) describe 2-year disease activity trajectories, measured by the SLE Disease Activity Index 2000 ...
E Schmitt   +478 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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