While the existence of horrendous evils has generally been taken to be evidence against God, some philosophers have suggested that it may for God. This paper introduces three main kinds theistic arguments from evils: argument objectively horrifying evils, pragmatic evil, and an reasonable responses. For each these arguments, I will first reconstruct a standard version argument, before suggestin...

Abstract In this article I discuss the moral-coherence reading of Kant’s moral argument offered by Allen Wood in his recent book Kant and Religion , display some challenges that it faces suggest a moral-psychological formulation is preferable.

In this paper we obtain existence results for the positive solution of a singular elliptic boundary value problem. To prove the main results we use comparison arguments and the method of sub-super solutions combined with a procedure which truncates the singularity.

This paper investigates connections between discrete and continuous approaches for decomposable submodular function minimization. We provide improved running time estimates for the state-of-the-art continuous algorithms for the problem using combinatorial arguments. We also provide a systematic experimental comparison of the two types of methods, based on a clear distinction between level-0 and...

A non-monotone time-delayed lattice system with global interaction is considered. The spreading speed, including the upward convergence, is established by comparison arguments and a fluctuation method. The existence of travelling waves is obtained by Schauder’s fixed-point theorem and a limiting process. It turns out that the minimal wave speed of travelling waves coincides with the spreading s...