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Now, Again and Again: The Metaphysics of Many Presents
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper discusses whether there can be multiple present moments. After presenting some reasons for thinking that the question is worthwhile, I challenge several objections to its possibility: worries about the exclusivity of tense; the nature of change, tense logic and semantics; and the apparent tension between multiple presents and an ...
Nikk Effingham
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Belief in God among South African youth
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1997 This article investigates belief in God among 538 students from standard 9 who attend Anglican and Catholic schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region.
Johannes A. van der Ven +2 more
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Room for Improvement: Why Finitist Arguments Do Not Check Out
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine several new and underexplored arguments for the finitude of the past and the impossibility of Hilbert's Hotel. The first argument concludes that Hilbert's Hotel is impossible due to an alleged contradiction arising from the causal powers of infinitely many guests.
Joseph C. Schmid, Troy Dana
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Post-theism or another form of theism? [PDF]
, 2017 Mini-symposium: ‘Hebben we een boodschap aan post-theïsten?’, 25 januari 2016, Groninger Theologisch Werkgezelschap.This article examines whether classical theism is at its complete end.
Dingemans, Gijsbert D.J.
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Swinburne’s Apologetic Strategy for Theism Evaluated [PDF]
, 2017 In this article, I classify Richard Swinburne’s apologetic strategy for theism, and raise eight structural problems with regard to his Bayesian approach. For example, is theism really a meaningful theory? Does it have any predictive power?
LS UU Philipse +2 more
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Classical Theism and Theological Method: A Critical Inquiry
ReligionsSome classical theists contend that the Christian tradition demands affirmation of the following four tenets—divine simplicity, timelessness, immutability, and impassibility—in their absolute or strict senses, a position I refer to as strict classical ...
John C. Peckham
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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
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Neoclassical Theism and the Problem of Foreknowledge and Passibility
TheoLogicaThough it is often not recognized, there are multiple models of God being affirmed and debated throughout the history of philosophical theology. In contemporary discussion, we have developed labels for these models such as classical theism, neoclassical
Ryan T. Mullins
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How Theists Can Answer the “Why be Moral?” Question: An Indirect Reason‐Generation Account
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, I give a new type of theistic answer to the “Why be moral?” question. After briefly clarifying the version of the question I'm concerned with, as well as extant theistic answers to the question, I argue for a new kind of answer. Roughly, while on standard answers, future (post death) benefits directly generate present reason to ...
Justin Morton
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Skeptical Theism Unscathed: Why Skeptical Objections to Skeptical Theism Fail [PDF]
, 2019 Arguments from evil purport to show that some fact about evil makes it (at least) probable that God does not exist. Skeptical theism is held to undermine many versions of the argument from evil: it is thought to undermine a crucial inference that such ...
Hendricks, Perry
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