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God, Moral Requirements, and the Limits of Freedom

Religions, 2021
This article addresses James Sterba’s recent argument for the conclusion that God’s existence is incompatible with the degree and amount of evil in the world. I raise a number of questions concerning the moral principles that Sterba suggests God would be
Laura W. Ekstrom
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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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Assessing differences among elasmobranch nurseries to aid conservation based on a genomics framework

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Elasmobranch nurseries often differ in environmental conditions, demographics, and use patterns. These differences affect the distribution of genetic variation among nurseries. However, conservation and management strategies often fail to account for such differences because they are difficult to characterize.
Dominic G. Swift, Amanda M. Barker, William B. Driggers III, Bryan S. Frazier, Douglas H. Adams, James J. Gelsleichter, Dana M. Bethea, Bethany M. Deacy, David S. Portnoy   +8 more
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The Sovereignty of Humanity and Social Responsibility for Evil Prevention

Religions, 2021
In this paper, I suggest that James Sterba’s recent restatement of the logical problem of evil overlooks a plausible theistic interpretation of the divine–human relation, which allows for a theodicy impervious to his atheological argument, which boils ...
Janusz Salamon
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Victims of the Itaewon crowd crush died twice: The role of justice beliefs (general vs. personal) and fatalism in predicting victim‐blaming

Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 28, Issue 1, March 2025.
Abstract The current study analyzes how the two facets of justice beliefs (GBJW and PBJW) relate to victim‐blaming in a recent man‐made disaster that occurred during the Halloween Festival in Seoul, South Korea. We also explore the psychological mechanism that underlies the link between justice beliefs and victim‐blaming by analyzing the mediating role
Hoon‐Seok Choi, Jeong‐Gil Seo
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Revisiting the History of Ornamental Aquaculture in Europe to Understand the Benefits and Drawbacks of Freshwater Fish Imports

Reviews in Aquaculture, Volume 17, Issue 2, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Ornamental aquaculture and fishkeeping are very popular with millions of enthusiasts worldwide. The number of newly imported fish species for ornamental purposes grew slowly from World War I until the 1980s. It then exponentially increased until now with more than 7900 species and a large number of scientifically undescribed morphotypes.
Jindřich Novák, Dieter Hohl, Martin Stuchlík, Jaroslav Hofmann, Michael F. Tlusty, André Lincoln Barroso Magalhães, Alberto Maceda‐Veiga, Surya Gentha Akmal, Gen Hua Yue, Pradeep Kumkar, Sean M. Marr, Joseph R. Sara, Nir Stern, Andrew L. Rhyne, James M. Furse, Lukáš Kalous, Jiří Patoka   +16 more
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Limited Intervention and Moral Kindergartens

Religions, 2022
Recently, William Hasker and Cheryl Chen have argued that James Sterba’s argument for the non-existence of God based on the existence of horrendous evil consequences fails.
Daniel Lim
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Premortalism and the Problem of Involuntary Suffering

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 65, Issue 6, Page 629-644, November 2024.
Abstract In a recent article, James Spiegel has suggested ways in which premortalism may bolster the free will defence in response to the logical problem of evil. Building on his presentation, this present article further reinforces the premortalist free will defence whilst also critiquing similarly related defences (such as the necessity of nomic ...
Andrew Hronich
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What is philosophical progress?

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 663-693, September 2024.
Abstract What is it for philosophy to make progress? While various putative forms of philosophical progress have been explored in some depth, this overarching question is rarely addressed explicitly, perhaps because it has been assumed to be intractable or unlikely to have a single, unified answer.
Finnur Dellsén, Tina Firing, Insa Lawler, James Norton   +3 more
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Applying parentage methods to detect gravel augmentation effects on juvenile Chinook Salmon recruitment rates

River Research and Applications, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 791-808, June 2024.
Abstract Quantifiable measurement of habitat restoration effects on salmonid reproductive performance is limited, although it is necessary for evaluating whether population responses follow management actions. We investigated using close‐kin mark‐recapture methods to partition restoration effects within standard monitoring metrics of juvenile emigrants
Scott M. Blankenship, Avery Scherer, Cheryl Dean, Kirsten Sellheim, Jamie Sweeney, Joseph Merz   +5 more
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