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Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
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American Philosophical Quarterly, 2021 Abstract Anti-theists argue that the world, or our lives, would be overall worse if God exists because God’s existence imposes distinctive downsides. Many hold, however, that anti-theism is incoherent if we assume that God would not permit gratuitous evil to occur.
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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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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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Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Objectives Nature exposure may support young women in improving their relationship with their body, enhancing positive body image. However, the mechanisms remain still largely underexplored. A few qualitative studies provided valuable insights, but they lacked generalizability to the broader population of young women, since they often relied ...
Paolo Mancin +4 more
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OPEN THEISM AND RISK MANAGEMENT: A PHILOSOPHICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Zygon, 2021 Open theism denies that God has definite exhaustive foreknowledge, and affirms that God takes certain risks when creating the universe. Critics of open theism often complain that the risks are too high.
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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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Layman’s Lapse: On an Incomplete Moral Argument for Theism
, 2013 C. Stephen Layman contends that an argument supporting theism over naturalism can be constructed based on three defensible, non–question-begging premises about the moral order.
Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- +1 more
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An epigrammatic analysis on open theism and its impact on classical Christianity
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013 Open theism is a theological position taken by a number of scholars and deals with human free will and its relationship to God, including the nature of the future. This brief article explores this relationship and challenges the tenets of open theism by
Mark Pretorius
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Opaque Theism and Divine Testimony
TheoLogicaA much-discussed objection to skeptical theism is that skeptical theism implies that divine testimony cannot provide us with knowledge. Here I argue that it is not skeptical theism that raises doubts about the trustworthiness of divine testimony; rather,
Erik Wielenberg
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