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Theism, naturalism, and scientific realism [PDF]
, 2017 Scientific knowledge is not merely a matter of reconciling theories and laws with data and observations. Science presupposes a number of metatheoretic shaping principles in order to judge good methods and theories from bad.
Koperski, Jeffrey
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The Emotional Impact of Evil: Philosophical Reflections on Existential Problems [PDF]
, 2019 In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky illustrates that encounters with evil do not solely impact agents’ beliefs about God (or God’s existence). Evil impacts people on an emotional level as well.
Colgrove, Nicholas
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Taking a New Perspective on Suffering and Death [PDF]
, 2019 There is a massive amount of severe suffering and death in the world, and much of this suffering and death is out of our control. The amount and severity of suffering and death in the world can be used to make an argument for (or elicit a reaction ...
Tweedt, Chris
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Skeptical Theism, Free Will Skepticism and Atheism: Pondering the Scope of Moral Paralysis
Cuestiones Teológicas, 2019 In this paper, I aim to show that Skeptical Theism (ST) implies the rejection of Free Will Skepticism (FWS). This is so because ST holds the so-called evidential argument from evil against theism. This argument presupposes free will (as a hidden premise),
Rafael Miranda-Rojas
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Oppy on the Argument from Consciousness: A Rejoinder [PDF]
, 2011 Graham Oppy had criticized my argument for God from consciousness (AC) in my recent book ’Consciousness and the Existence of God’ (N.Y.: Routledge, 2008). In this article I offer a rejoinder to Oppy.
Moreland, J. P.
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Van Til versus Stroud: Is the Transcendental Argument for Christian Theism Viable? [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper I introduce the transcendental argument for Christian theism in the context of Reformed theologian and philosopher Cornelius Van Til’s thought. I then present the critique proffered by Barry Stroud against ambitious transcendental arguments,
Békefi, Bálint
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Early-Modern Irreligion and Theological Analogy: A Response to Gavin Hyman’s A Short History of Atheism [PDF]
, 2016 Historically, many Christians have understood God’s transcendence to imply God’s properties categorically differ from any created properties. For multiple historical figures, a problem arose for religious language: how can one talk of God at all if none ...
Linford, Dan
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Knowledge and the Objection to Religious Belief from Cognitive Science [PDF]
, 2011 A large chorus of voices has grown around the claim that theistic belief is epistemically suspect since, as some cognitive scientists have hypothesized, such beliefs are a byproduct of cognitive mechanisms which evolved for rather different adaptive ...
Clark, Kelly James, Rabinowitz, Dani
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An Inconsistency in Craig’s Defence of the Moral Argument [PDF]
, 2012 I argue that William Craig’s defence of the moral argument is internally inconsistent. In the course of defending the moral argument, Craig criticizes non-theistic moral realism on the grounds that it posits the existence of certain logically necessary ...
Wielenberg, Erik J.
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Sceptical Theism and the Paradox of Evil [PDF]
, 2020 Given plausible assumptions about the nature of evidence and undercutting defeat, many believe that the force of the evidential problem of evil depends on sceptical theism’s being false: if evil is..
Oliveira, Luis R. G.
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