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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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Reconciling the God of Traditional Theism with the World’s Evils

Religions, 2020
Replying to James Sterba’s argument for the incompatibility of the world’s evils with the existence of the God of traditional theism, I argue for their compatibility, using the proposition that God has reasons for permitting these evils.
Robin Attfield
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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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Sterba on Divine Commands and Fairness

Religions
James Sterba has recently argued against Divine Command Theory (DCT). Sterba also offers, as a preferable alternative to DCT, a metaethical account which he has developed over a number of years (culminating in Sterba’s 2013 book), which attempts to ...
Daniel Molto
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Functional network dynamics revealed by EEG microstates reflect cognitive decline in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Human Brain Mapping, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2024.
In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, both static and dynamic properties of resting‐state EEG microstates were found to be disrupted, indicating abnormalities within the sensory network as well as higher‐order networks. These alterations in microstate properties hold the potential to serve as predictive indicators for symptom progression, particularly in ...
Marjorie Metzger, Stefan Dukic, Roisin McMackin, Eileen Giglia, Matthew Mitchell, Saroj Bista, Emmet Costello, Colm Peelo, Yasmine Tadjine, Vladyslav Sirenko, Serena Plaitano, Amina Coffey, Lara McManus, Adelais Farnell Sharp, Prabhav Mehra, Mark Heverin, Peter Bede, Muthuraman Muthuraman, Niall Pender, Orla Hardiman, Bahman Nasseroleslami   +20 more
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A View on the Possibility of an Ethics Without God

Religions
This article addresses the question, “Is an ethics without God possible?” This question is explored in a special issue, edited by Prof. Dr. James P. Sterba, which directly poses this very inquiry.
Elliott R. Crozat
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Pattern of Relapse and Treatment Response in WNT-Activated Medulloblastoma

Cell Reports Medicine, 2020
Summary: Over the past decade, wingless-activated (WNT) medulloblastoma has been identified as a candidate for therapy de-escalation based on excellent survival; however, a paucity of relapses has precluded additional analyses of markers of relapse.
Liana Nobre, Michal Zapotocky, Sara Khan, Kohei Fukuoka, Adriana Fonseca, Tara McKeown, David Sumerauer, Ales Vicha, Wieslawa A. Grajkowska, Joanna Trubicka, Kay Ka Wai Li, Ho-Keung Ng, Luca Massimi, Ji Yeoun Lee, Seung-Ki Kim, Shayna Zelcer, Alexandre Vasiljevic, Cécile Faure-Conter, Peter Hauser, Boleslaw Lach, Marie-Lise van Veelen-Vincent, Pim J. French, Erwin G. Van Meir, William A. Weiss, Nalin Gupta, Ian F. Pollack, Ronald L. Hamilton, Amulya A. Nageswara Rao, Caterina Giannini, Joshua B. Rubin, Andrew S. Moore, Lola B. Chambless, Rajeev Vibhakar, Young Shin Ra, Maura Massimino, Roger E. McLendon, Helen Wheeler, Massimo Zollo, Veronica Ferruci, Toshihiro Kumabe, Claudia C. Faria, Jaroslav Sterba, Shin Jung, Enrique López-Aguilar, Jaume Mora, Carlos G. Carlotti, James M. Olson, Sarah Leary, Jason Cain, Lenka Krskova, Josef Zamecnik, Cynthia E. Hawkins, Uri Tabori, Annie Huang, Ute Bartels, Paul A. Northcott, Michael D. Taylor, Stephen Yip, Jordan R. Hansford, Eric Bouffet, Vijay Ramaswamy   +60 more
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An Ethics without God That Is Compatible with Darwinian Evolution

Religions
Building on my recent argument that an all-good, all-powerful God is logically incompatible with all the evil in the world, I explore what grounding ethics can have without the God of traditional theism.
James P. Sterba
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