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Intentionality, belief, and the logical problem of evil [PDF]
Religious Studies, 2019 AbstractThis article provides a new defence against the logical problem of evil, based on the naturalistic functional/teleological theory of mind (NFT). I argue that if the NFT is self-consistent then it is consistent with theism. Further, the NFT entails that it is not possible for created minds to exist in the absence of evil.
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Major Gaps in Sterba’s New Atheological Argument from Evil
Religions, 2022 In this essay, I first offer several scenarios where Sterba’s argument based on the Pauline Principle fails: specifically, one in which we all consent to living an earthly life in some prior existence (prior-consent scenario), one in which the victims ...
Robin Collins
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Systemic evil and the international political imagination [PDF]
, 2016 In light of the persistence of discourses of atrocity in the post-Holocaust era, and with the resurgence of talk of evil that followed 11 September 2001, it is clear that the idea of evil still possesses a powerful hold upon the modern imagination.
Hayden, Patrick, Patrick Hayden
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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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God’s Prime Directive: Non-Interference and Why There Is No (Viable) Free Will Defense
Religions, 2022 In a recent book and article, James Sterba has argued that there is no free will defense. It is the purpose of this article to show that, in the most technical sense, he is wrong.
David Kyle Johnson
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Sterba’s Logical Argument from Evil and the God Who Walks Away from Omelas
Religions, 2022 The logical argument from evil, generally thought to have been defused by Alvin Plantinga’s free will defense, has been reinvigorated by James Sterba’s exposition and defense of a new version of the argument that draws on recent work in moral philosophy.
Erik J. Wielenberg
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Examining the logical argument of the problem of evil from an African perspective
Religious Studies, 2022 AbstractWe argue that the problem of evil, logically, stems from the unequal binary that characterizes the bivalent structure of Western discourses in the philosophy of religion. This structure pits God against the devil, but also the value of good against evil they are believed to represent.
Jonathan O. Chimakonam +1 more
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The Logical Problem of Evil and the Limited God Defense [PDF]
, 2015 Formulated theories on the Logical Problem of Evil, the Evidential Problem of Evil and the Limited God ...
Hibbs, Darren
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A Comparison between Swinburne’s and Mutahari’s views on the Problem of Evil [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2014 The problem of evil, as raised by Mutahari and Swinburne, is one of the most important and complicated problems concerning belief in God and teleology of the world.
Hamidreza Ekandari Damaneh +1 more
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Defending the Free Will Defense: A Reply to Sterba
Religions, 2022 James Sterba has recently argued that the free will defense fails to explain the compossibility of a perfect God and the amount and degree of moral evil that we see. I think he is mistaken about this.
Luis R. G. Oliveira
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