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How Did Evil Come into the World? A Primordial Free-Will Theodicy
James P. Sterba has provided a compelling argument to the effect that given the extent of significant, and indeed even horrendous, evil that an all-good and all-powerful being could have prevented, there is no God.
Mark Johnston
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Every man has his price: Kant's argument for universal radical evil [PDF]
Kant famously claims that we have all freely chosen evil. This paper offers a novel account of the much-debated justification for this claim. I reconstruct Kant’s argument from his affirmation that we all have a price – we can all succumb to temptation ...
Indregard, Jonas Jervell
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ABSTRACT Background PIK3CA‐related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) includes several rare overgrowth disorders resulting from somatic gain‐of‐function mutations in PIK3CA. Despite treatment advances, including the recent approval of alpelisib for PROS in the United States, literature detailing the patient experience with PROS is limited.
Vamsi Bollu +8 more
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In his version of the so-called Thomistic objection against the ontological argument, Kant follows Crusius in replacing the term “sufficient” for “determining” in the formulation ‛principle of reason’ as an attempt to distinguish logical possibility ...
Ignacio Garay
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Is there a liberal principle of instrumental transmission? [PDF]
Some of our reasons for action are grounded in the fact that the action in question is a means to something else we have reason to do. This raises the question as to which principles govern the transmission of reasons from ends to means.
Gertken, Jan, Kiesewetter, Benjamin
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ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee +9 more
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Normative Reasons as Reasons Why We Ought [PDF]
I defend the view that a reason for someone to do something is just a reason why she ought to do it. This simple view has been thought incompatible with the existence of reasons to do things that we may refrain from doing or even ought not to do.
Nebel, Jacob M.
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Fool me once: Can indifference vindicate induction? [PDF]
Roger White (2015) sketches an ingenious new solution to the problem of induction. He argues from the principle of indifference for the conclusion that the world is more likely to be induction- friendly than induction-unfriendly.
Barnett, Zach, Li, Han
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ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song +15 more
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Spinoza and the problem of other substances [PDF]
Most of Spinoza’s arguments for God’s existence do not rely on any special feature of God, but instead on merely general features of substance. This raises the following worry: those arguments prove the existence of non-divine substances just as much as ...
Barry, Galen
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