Month: August 2013

Moti Mizrahi’s New Paper: “The Problem of Natural Inequality: A New Problem of Evil”

Forthcoming in Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel. Pre-publication copy available here. Abstract. In this paper, I argue that there is a kind of evil, namely, the unequal distribution of  natural endowments, or natural inequality, which presents theists with a new evidential (not logical or incompatibility) problem of evil. The problem of natural inequality is a Moti Mizrahi’s New Paper: “The Problem of Natural Inequality: A New Problem of Evil”

Bobier’s New Paper on the Kalam Argument: “God, Time, and the Kalam Cosmological Argument”

Christopher Alan Bobier, “God, Time, and the Kalam Cosmological Argument”, Sophia (May 2013). Here’s the abstract: The Kalām cosmological argument deploys the following causal principle: whatever begins to exist has a cause. Yet, under what conditions does something ‘begin to exist’? What does it mean to say that ‘X begins to exist at t’? William Lane Craig has Bobier’s New Paper on the Kalam Argument: “God, Time, and the Kalam Cosmological Argument”

The Evidential Argument from the History of Science, Part 5: Reply to RD Miksa

In the combox on Victor Reppert’s Dangerous Idea blog, RD Miksa posted a thoughtful, four part assessment of the evidential argument from history of science (AHS). In this post, I want to reply to Miksa. Miksa’s Reply to the Informal Statement of the Argument The Definition of “Science” Miksa correctly points out that my post The Evidential Argument from the History of Science, Part 5: Reply to RD Miksa