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Defending the Free Will Defense: A Reply to Sterba [PDF]
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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Why God Cannot Do What Sterba Wants [PDF]
Religions, 2022 Sterba argues that if God existed, God would allow lower-level evils and suffering but should and would prevent all significant and horrendous evils. Since such serious evils do exist, God does not exist. In reply, I argue that in creating a Sterba world,
Stephen T. Davis
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Religions, 2022 James Sterba argues that a good God is not logically possible. He argues that what he calls the Pauline Principle, which says that we should never do evil that good may come of it, implies that a good God would prevent horrendous evil consequences of ...
Bruce Russell
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The Problem of Evil and God’s Moral Standing: A Rejoinder to James Sterba [PDF]
Religions, 2022 This article is a rejoinder to James Sterba’s response to my previous article on the topic of his book, Is a Good God Logically Possible? Sterba argues that a good God is not logically possible given the amount of horrendous evil in the world. If God did
Brian Huffling
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Is God Morally Obligated to Prevent Evil? A Response to James Sterba [PDF]
Religions, 2021 James Sterba’s book, Is a Good God Logically Possible?, argues that given the amount of significant and horrendous evil in the world, it is not possible for a (morally) good God to exist.
Joseph Brian Huffling
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Sterba’s Problem of Evil vs. Sterba’s Problem of Specificity: Which Is the Real Problem?
Religions, 2022 In 2019 the noted ethicist and political philosopher James Sterba published a new deductive version of the argument from the problem of evil to the conclusion that an Anselmian God does not exist.
Michael S. Jones
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A Modified Free-Will Defense: A Structural and Theistic Free-Will Defense as a Response to James Sterba [PDF]
Religions, 2022 In his book Is a Good God Logically Possible?, James Sterba argues that the Plantingian free-will defense, which reconciles the existence of a good and omnipotent God with the existence of evil, is a failed argument when it comes to the terrible evils in
ELİF NUR ERKAN BALCI
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Sterba’s Problem of Evil and a Penal Colony Theodicy
Religions, 2023 Sterba argues that God would be ethically bound to implement a set of exceptionless evil prevention requirements. However, he argues that the world as we know it is not as it would be if God were applying them.
Gerald Harrison
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Has James Sterba Established a Logical Argument from Evil or Just a Very Good Evidential One? [PDF]
Religions, 2023 James Sterba’s new treatise advancing a logical argument from evil against the existence of God fails in one respect and succeeds in another. As with all claimants to having found such a thing before him, Sterba fails in properly achieving a logical ...
Richard Carrier
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Uma leitura crítica do biocentrismo de Paul Taylor a partir de James Sterba
Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2012 Este artigo analisa a proposta biocêntrica encontrada no artigo “A Biocentrist Strikes Back” (Um biocentrista revida), de James Sterba, que se propõe a defender o biocentrismo de três acusações: de que favorece a espécie humana em detrimento das demais,
Carmelita Schulze
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