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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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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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Isaac Qatraya and the logical problem of evil [PDF]

, 2022
Sterba has recently produced a searching and significant version of the argument from evil. Here, I set out aspects of the view of God, suffering, and the afterlife articulated by Isaac Qatraya (also known as Isaac of Nineveh and Isaac the Syrian), and ...
James Henry Collin, Collin, James Henry
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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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¿Puede existir un deber de sacrificar la propia vida para salvar la de terceros? [PDF]

, 2020
In a very short article, James Sterba argues that there is a moral duty to sacrifice one’s life to save the lives of others. Sterba justifies this duty by drawing an analogy with a series of cases in which some degree of sacrifice would be commonly ...
Abal, Federico Germán
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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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Sterba’s Argument from Evil and Objections to Divine Command Theory

Religions
This paper will respond to James Sterba’s paper “An Ethics without God That is Compatible with Darwinian Evolution”. In his paper, Sterba argues that God cannot be the source of morality.
Caleb Cumberland
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In Answer to the Pauline Principle: Consent, Logical Constraints, and Free Will

Religions, 2022
James Sterba uses the Pauline Principle to argue that the occurrence of significant, horrendous evils is logically incompatible with the existence of a good God.
Marilie Coetsee
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