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Brief Remarks on Sterba’s Moral Argument from Evil

Religions, 2022
We pose two challenges to Sterba’s position. First, we show that Sterba fails to consider alternative historical positions such as Leibniz’s (who argues that God knows that the actual world is the best of all possible worlds) or Kant’s (who suggests that
Marco Hausmann, Amit Kravitz
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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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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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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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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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Human Sovereignty and the Logical Problem of Evil [PDF]

Religions, 2022
In this paper, I provide a defence of theism against James Sterba’s version of the logical problem of evil, at least where the focus is on moral evil (I do not have much to say about natural evil in this paper).
Daniel Molto
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How the Trinitarian God of Christianity Provides the Best Explanation for Objective Morality: Comparing the Metaethical Theories of James Sterba and Adam Lloyd Johnson

Religions
James Sterba recently presented arguments against theories which ground morality in God and attempted “to provide an account of the norms on which an ethics without God can be appropriately grounded ….” In particular, Sterba noted that “Robert Adams is ...
Adam Lloyd Johnson
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God, Evil, and Meticulous Providence [PDF]

Religions, 2022
James Sterba has constructed a powerful argument for there being a conflict between the presence of evil in the world and the existence of God. I contend that Sterba’s argument depends on a crucial assumption, namely, that God has an obligation to act ...
Bruce R. Reichenbach
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