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A Kantian Response to the Problem of Evil: Living in the Moral World

Religions, 2023
James Sterba has presented a powerful and existentially sincere form of the problem of evil, arguing that it is logically impossible for God to exist, given that there are powerful moral requirements to prevent evil, where one can, and that these ...
Christopher J. Insole
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Divine Morality or Divine Love? On Sterba’s New Logical Problem of Evil

Religions, 2023
In his recent version of the logical problem of evil, James Sterba articulates several moral principles that, on the assumption that God is morally perfect, seem to entail God’s non-existence.
Jonathan C. Rutledge
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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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A proposta pluralista da ética ambiental biocêntrica

Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2012
Este artigo analisa inicialmente os argumentos, conceitos, filiações teóricas, propostas e concepção, de James P. Sterba, em seu artigo “From Biocentric Individualism to Biocentric Pluralism”, no qual visa reestruturar a ética ambiental biocêntrica ...
Rafael Mendonça
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Sixteen Contributors: A Response

Religions, 2021
It is a rare event indeed to have sixteen philosophers join together in a symposium to reflect up the central question of one’s book [...]
James P. Sterba
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Forty Contributors: A Response

Religions, 2023
In July of 2021, I finished guest-editing a Special Issue for Religions on the topic of my book Is a Good God Logically Possible [...]
James P. Sterba
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How Did Evil Come into the World? A Primordial Free-Will Theodicy

Religions, 2023
James P. Sterba has provided a compelling argument to the effect that given the extent of significant, and indeed even horrendous, evil that an all-good and all-powerful being could have prevented, there is no God.
Mark Johnston
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Which practices co‐deliver food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and combat land degradation and desertification?

Global Change Biology, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 1532-1575, March 2020., 2020
There is a clear need for transformative change in the land management and food production sectors to address the global land challenges of climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, combatting land degradation and desertification, and delivering food security (referred to hereafter as “land challenges”).
Pete Smith, Katherine Calvin, Johnson Nkem, Donovan Campbell, Francesco Cherubini, Giacomo Grassi, Vladimir Korotkov, Anh Le Hoang, Shuaib Lwasa, Pamela McElwee, Ephraim Nkonya, Nobuko Saigusa, Jean‐Francois Soussana, Miguel Angel Taboada, Frances C. Manning, Dorothy Nampanzira, Cristina Arias‐Navarro, Matteo Vizzarri, Jo House, Stephanie Roe, Annette Cowie, Mark Rounsevell, Almut Arneth   +22 more
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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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The “Heaven Ab Initio” Argument from Evil

Religions, 2023
Logical and evidential arguments from evil are generally thought to have been rebutted by various refutations, defenses, and theodicies. While disparate, these responses employ similar strategies to show that God has morally sufficient reasons to permit ...
Carlo Alvaro
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