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Creator Theology and Sterba’s Argument from Evil

Religions, 2022
In this paper, I reformulate Sterba’s argument from evil and consider the various ways theists might respond to it. There are two basic families of responses. On the one hand, theists can deny that God, as a perfect being, needs to act in accordance with Sterba’s moral evil prevention requirements (MEPRs).
Joe Milburn
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Sterba on Divine Commands and Fairness

Religions
James Sterba has recently argued against Divine Command Theory (DCT). Sterba also offers, as a preferable alternative to DCT, a metaethical account which he has developed over a number of years (culminating in Sterba’s 2013 book), which attempts to ...
Daniel Molto
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A Modified Free-Will Defense: A Structural and Theistic Free-Will Defense as a Response to James Sterba

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
Elif NUR ERKAN Balcı
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Has James Sterba Established a Logical Argument from Evil or Just a Very Good Evidential One?

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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God’s Prime Directive: Non-Interference and Why There Is No (Viable) Free Will Defense [PDF]

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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The Argument from Evil, the Argument from Hiddenness, and Supernaturalistic Alternatives to Theism

Religions, 2022
In this brief article, I consider James Sterba’s logical argument from evil, finding it to be ultimately unsuccessful. Not for the various issues Sterba raises, which do seem to be problematic if God exists, but for the logical approach itself.
Raphael Lataster
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Divine Morality or Divine Love? On Sterba’s New Logical Problem of Evil [PDF]

Religions, 2023
In his recent version of the logical problem of evil, James Sterba articulates several moral principles that, on the assumption that God is morally perfect, seem to entail God’s non-existence.
Jonathan C. Rutledge
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Is There a Right to Hope That God Exists? Evil and the Principle of Non-Parity

Religions, 2022
In this paper, I respond to James Sterba’s recent book ‘Is a Good God Logically Possible?’ I show that Sterba concludes that God is not logically possible by ignoring three important issues: (a) the different functions of leeway indeterminism (and the ...
Jacqueline Mariña
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Evil Prevention Requirements and the God of Theism

Religions, 2022
The central argument of James Sterba’s “Is a Good God Logically Possible?” relies crucially on the notion that a good God would have to abide by various evil prevention requirements.
Adam Noel Wood
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