Comparing Folks’ Understanding of the Problem of Evil with Philosophers’ Understanding Based on Experimental Philosophy Approach [PDF]
Experimental philosophy is a new approach in analytic philosophy emerging in the last decade. Experimental philosophy emphasizes the intuitions of ordinary people and compares them with philosophers' intuitions to understand and analyze philosophical ...
Jalal Peykani
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Animal Suffering and the Laws of Nature
Two recent atheistic arguments from evil have made much of natural evil and the suffering of animals in their case contra theism. The first argument is that of James Sterba.
Jeffrey Jordan
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A Critique of Schellenberg’s New Logical Argument from Evil [PDF]
In a new formulation of the logical problem of evil, J. L. Schellenberg attempts to develop a new version of the logical form of the problem of evil through the logical inconsistency of the conjunction of three theistic claims with the existence of evil.
Mahboobeh Pakdel, Amirabbas Alizamani
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A Discourse Criticism of Replies to the Problem of Evil in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy (ʿAllama Tabatabaʾi and Ayatollah Motahhari) [PDF]
Introduction The perennial problem of evil, which includes a set of problems, was generally formulated in three ways: (1) the logical problem of evil (logical inconsistency of God’s existence and attributes with the existence of evil), (2) the evidential
Zahra Yahyapour +2 more
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Evaluating a New Logical Argument From Evil [PDF]
J. L. Schellenberg, in “A New Logical Problem of Evil,” published in The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil, argues that (if God exists) God has, of necessity, a disappreciation of evil, operating at a metalevel in such a way as to give God a non-
Langtry, Bruce
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A Study of Nick Trakakis's Approach to Anti-Theodicy in Comparison with Meta-Theodicy and Critique of Theodicy [PDF]
The problem of evil and theodicy are acknowledged as inherent parts of the philosophy of religion. But on the other hand, some are seeking a way to put an end to this issue.
Seyed Mahdi Sajadi
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The Status of Leibniz's Theodicy in Kant's Pre-Critical Thought [PDF]
Immanuel Kant has addressed the problem of evil in many of his works. The neglected part of Kant’s thought -especially among Muslim scholars- is his philosophical objections and defenses regarding the problem of evil in pre-critical and early critical ...
Zahra Farzanegan, Farah Ramin
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Can Heaven Justify Horrendous Moral Evils? A Postmortem Autopsy
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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Solving the Logical Problem of Evil using the Principles of Programming [PDF]
The purpose of this thesis is to offer a solution to the logical problem of evil, using computer programming principles to establish a logical model to the solution.
Edmond, Daniel Joel
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A new response to the new evil demon problem [PDF]
The New Evil Demon Problem is meant to show that reliabilism about epistemic justification is incompatible with the intuitive idea that the external-world beliefs of a subject who is the victim of a Cartesian demon could be epistemically justified. Here,
Baysan, Umut
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