Abstract De facto objections to theism purport show that is false, whereas de jure claim that, whether or not true, belief in God irrational. Divine hiddenness – the (supposed) fact there are people who non-resistantly lack sometimes used as an argument against theism. In this article I will accepting from divine carries a high cost: it eliminates all So atheists can either have objection hidde...

Abstract A number of theistic philosophers have recently denied that God is subject to moral and rational norms. At the same time, many theists employ epistemological inductive arguments for existence God. I will argue ‘no-norms’ cannot make use such arguments: if not norms – particularly then we can say nothing substantive about what kind worlds would be likely create, as such, predict likelih...

The article argues that the logical argument from evil is dead, and new version presented by James Sterba cannot resurrect it. In first part, I say dead either because, in given Mackie, it was successfully refuted Plantinga other theists or inviting a reformulation of theistic doctrines, nevertheless superseded contemporary versions theism, such as open theism. second argue two significant move...

Abstract The question of the meaning life has long been thought to be closely intertwined with that existence God. I offer a new theistic, anti-naturalist argument from life. It is argued desire for irrational on naturalism, since there would no good reason believe worthwhile whole if naturalism were true. As show, same cannot theism. Since it clear not irrational, concluded we have strong pref...

In order to protect stakeholders of insurance companies and financial institutions against adverse outcomes of risky businesses, regulators and senior management use capital allocation techniques. For enterprise-wide risk management, it has become important to calculate the contribution of each risk within a portfolio. For that purpose, bivariate lower and upper orthant tail value-at-risk can b...

Philosophers of religion have traditionally focused their attention on belief in God and assessed such terms it having some epistemic status like “rationality” or “probability”, indeed by determining whether not constitutes knowledge. In this paper, I focus my the non-doxastic attitude hope formulate reasons for we should God. light these reasons, hopeism as a research programme according to wh...

Abstract We argue that there is a conflict among classical theism's commitments to divine simplicity, creative freedom, and omniscience. start by defining key terms for the debate related theism. Then we articulate new argument, Aloneness Argument, aiming establish these attributes. In broad outline, argument proceeds as follows. Under theism, it's possible God exists without anything apart fro...