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Bridging the Mackie–Plantinga Debate on Evil with Ibn Arabi’s Metaphysics
ReligionsThis study examines how Ibn Arabi’s metaphysics can address key challenges in the contemporary philosophical debate on the problem of evil. John Mackie famously argues that the existence of an omnibenevolent and omnipotent God is logically incompatible ...
Elif NUR ERKAN Balcı
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Systematic analysis of factors affecting the efficacy of corneal reinnervation surgery in treating neurotrophic keratitis [PDF]
European Journal of Medical ResearchObjective This study investigated the efficacy of corneal neurotization (CN) surgery for treating neurotrophic keratitis (NK) and evaluated potential factors affecting treatment outcomes.
Rui Kuang +5 more
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Fatal footsteps: Understanding the Safe System context behind New Zealand’s pedestrian road trauma [PDF]
Journal of Road Safety, 2021 In 2016 in New Zealand, pedestrians accounted for 7.6% (n=25) of all road fatalities and 6.6% (n=257) of serious injuries (Ministry of Transport, 2017). The aim of this research was to analyse a sample of pedestrian deaths and serious injury (DSI) cases ...
Lily Hirsch, Hamish Mackie, Iain McAuley
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Is Theism Incompatible with the Pauline Principle?
Religions, 2022 This paper criticises James Sterba’s use of the Pauline principle to formulate a logical version of the problem of evil. Sterba’s argument contains a crucial premise: If human agents are always prohibited from doing some action, God is also prohibited ...
Matthew Flannagan
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European Journal of Human Genetics, 2017 On behalf of the authors, I write to reply to the Letter to the Editor from Dr Mackie: UK National Screening Committee criteria: clarification of two misunderstandings, published in this issue of EJHG.
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Not Just Errors: A New Interpretation of Mackie’s Error Theory
Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2017 J. L. Mackie famously argued that a commitment to non-existent objective values permeates ordinary moral thought and discourse. According to a standard interpretation, Mackie construed this commitment as a universal and indeed essential feature of moral ...
Victor Moberger
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Reinventing Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2020 I offer new arguments for an unorthodox reading of J. L. Mackie’s Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, one on which Mackie does not think all substantive moral claims are false, but allows that a proper subset of them are true. Further, those that are true
Michael Ridge
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Observations of late-winter marine microbial activity in an ice-covered fjord, west Greenland [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2020 Direct observations of marine microbial metabolism are sparse in the Arctic, particularly under sea ice during winter. This paper presents the first observations of Arctic winter microbial activity under sea ice in a west Greenland fjord (Lillefjord ...
D. Chandler, S. Mackie, S. Mackie
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Place and Conflicting Powers in David Greig’s The Architect
مجلة الآداب, 2023 There is a reciprocal connection between a place and its inhabitants who attempt to shape it according to their aspirations and needs. This may result in the emergence of conflicting powers that struggle to control the place and decide its policies that,
Maha Thair Muhammed, Esraa Jalal Jawad
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A Critical Investigation into Moral Error Theory [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2012 Moral Error Theory was formulated by J. L. Mackie and later modified and supported by other scholars, including Richard Joyce. The theory has been so influential that some authorities consider new realism of late 20th century a response to Moral Error ...
gholamhoseyn tavakoli
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