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European Mixed Forests: definition and research perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
peer-reviewedAim of study: We aim at (i) developing a reference definition of mixed forests in order to harmonize comparative research in mixed forests and (ii) briefly review the research perspectives in mixed forests.
Ammer, Christian   +37 more
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The development of a simple basal area increment model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In most cases forest practice in Austria use yield tables to predict the growth of their forests. Common yield tables show the increment of pure even-aged stands which are treated in a way the table developer recommends.
Georg Erich Kindermann
core   +2 more sources

Animal Suffering and the Laws of Nature

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Two recent atheistic arguments from evil have made much of natural evil and the suffering of animals in their case contra theism. The first argument is that of James Sterba.
Jeffrey Jordan
doaj   +1 more source

Patterns of anxiety symptoms in toddlers and preschool-age children: Evidence of early differentiation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The degree to which young children’s anxiety symptoms differentiate according to diagnostic groupings is under-studied, especially in children below the age of 4 years.
Briggs-Gowan, Margaret J.   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Lost Toy? Monsters Under the Bed? Contributions of Temperament and Family Factors to Early Internalizing Problems in Boys and Girls [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This study was designed to examine the contribution of multiple risk factors to early internalizing problems and to investigate whether family and ecological context moderated the association between child temperament and internalizing outcomes. A sample
Briggs-Gowan, Margaret J.   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Against the New Logical Argument from Evil

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Jim Sterba’s Is a Good God Logically Possible? looks to resurrect J. L. Mackie’s logical argument from evil. Sterba accepts the general framework that theists seeking to give a theodicy have favored since Leibniz invented the term: the search for some ...
Daniel Rubio
doaj   +1 more source

A Kantian Response to the Problem of Evil: Living in the Moral World

open access: yesReligions, 2023
James Sterba has presented a powerful and existentially sincere form of the problem of evil, arguing that it is logically impossible for God to exist, given that there are powerful moral requirements to prevent evil, where one can, and that these ...
Christopher J. Insole
doaj   +1 more source

Is There a Right to Hope That God Exists? Evil and the Principle of Non-Parity

open access: yesReligions, 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Wittgensteinian Antitheodicy

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Contrary to the majority of contemporary analytic philosophers of religion, James Sterba argues in his book Is a Good God Logically Possible? (2019) that Alvin Plantinga with his famous free will defense has not succeeded in solving the logical problem ...
Timo Koistinen
doaj   +1 more source

James Sterba’s New Argument from Evil [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2020
This article addresses the main argument in James Sterba’s book, an argument which claims that the existence of a good God is logically incompatible with the evil in the world. I claim to show that his main premise, MEPRI, is implausible and is not a secure foundation for such an argument.
openaire   +2 more sources

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