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Aijaz--Some Critical Reflections on the Hiddenness Arg
Brandon Killmeyer--Beaudoin-Inscrutable Evil and Skepticism Thursday, Oct. 6
Beilby--Rowe on the Evidential Value of Appearances
Rozak--Bergmann-In Defense of Skeptical Theism: A Reply to Almeida and Oppy See also Rowe--Skeptical Theism a Reply to Bergmann
Bergmann--Skeptical Theism and Rowe's New Evidential Argument from Evil
Armitage--Blair--Aggression, Psychopathy and Freewill from a Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
Kory Hakobian--Bloom-The Moral Life of Babies Tuesday, Sept. 13
Brain matter linked to introspective thoughts_ Structure of prefrontal cortex helps humans think about one's own thinking
McGeorge--Buckareff and Plug--Escaping Hell: Divine Motivation and the Problem of Hell
Cody Howard--Burns and Bechara--Decision Making and Free Will: A Neuroscience Perspective Tuesday, Oct. 4
Cain--Free Will and the Problem of Evil
Drew Petit-Cain--On the problem of hell Thursday, Sept. 15
Carey-For the Worst of Us, the Diagnosis May Be ‘Evil’
Cary--A Brief History of the Concept of Freewill
Cashmore--The Lucretian Swerve: The Biological Basis of Human Behavior and the Criminal Justice System
Chrzan--Debunking CORNEA
Clark--Progress and the Argument from Evil
Cushman, Young, and Hauser--The Role of Conscious Reasoning and Intuition in Moral Judgment
Darley and Batson--From Jerusalem to Jericho A study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behavior
Deegan-St. Thomas and the Problem of Evil
Scott Davidson--Doris and Murphy--From My Lai to Abu Ghraib: The Moral Psychology of Atrocity Tuesday, Oct 11
Doris--Heated Agreement: Lack of Character as Being for the Good
Durston--The complexity of history and evil: a reply to trakakis
Fitzpatrick--The Onus of Proof in Arguments About the Problem of Evil
Forest, Clark, Mills, and Isen--Helping as a Function of Feeling State and Nature of the Helping Behavior
Hartkopf--Franklin--Two Caricatures, II: Leibniz's Best World
Geirsson-Plantinga and the Problem of Evil
Gellman-A New Look at the Problem of Evil
Michael Nash--Gomes--Free Will, the Self, and the Brain Tuesday, Oct. 25
Greene and Cohen--For The Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything
Greene-- The Secret of Kant's Soul
Buelow--Greene--From Neural "is" to moral "ought": What are the Moral Implications of Neuroscientific Moral Psychology?
Greene-How (and where) Does Moral Judgment Work?
Greene--The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth about Morality and What To Do About It--Dissertation
Grim--Free Will in Context: A Contemporary Philosophical Perspective
Loc Pham--Guleserian-God and Possible Worlds: The Modal Problem of Evil
Kate Sprawka--Haggard--Human Volition: towards a neuroscience of Will Thursday, Sept 29.
Hart-Tremors of Doubt
Katie Brothers--Harrison--Theodicy and Animal Pain. Tuesday, Sept. 5
Isen-Effect of Feeling Good on Helping: Cookies and Kindness
Jordan-Does Skeptical Theism Lead to Moral Skepticism?
Kallenberg-Some Things Are Worth Dying For
Kawohl-Free Will: Reconciling German Civil Law with Libet’s Neurophysiological Studies on the
Phil King--Kellenberger- God’s goodness and God’s evil Tuesday, Sept. 20
Keller-The Problem of Evil and The Attributes of God
Kershnar-The Injustice of Hell
Koenigs-Damage to the Prefrontal Cortex Increases Utilitarian Moral Judgments
Kroeber-The Historical Debate on Brain and Legal Responsibility-Revisited
La Rue and Olejnik--Cognitive Priming of Principled Moral Thought
La Rue-Cognitive “Priming” of Principled Moral Thought
Langtry-Eyeballing Evil: Some Epistemic Principles
Lascano-God Must (and Can) Create The Best
Layman- Moral Evil: The Comparative Response
Lewis-Evil for Freedom’s Sake?
Liljenquist-The Smell of Virtue-Clean Scents Promote Reciprocity and Charity
Lovering-Divine Hiddenness and Inculpable Ignorance
Maitzen-Skeptical Theism and God’s Commands
Martin-Is Evil Evidence Against the Existence of God?
Mathews-Environmental Noise Level as a Determinant of Helping Behavior
Mawson-Freedom, Human, and Divine
McBrayer-Cornea and Inductive Evidence
McBrayer-Evidential Arguments from Evil and the “Seeability” of Compensating Goods
Mednick and Gabielli--Genetic Influences in Criminal Convictions: Evidence from an Adoption Cohort
Mendez--Sociopathic Dementia
Morriston- Power, Liability, and the Free-Will Defence: Reply to Mawson
Morriston- The Evidential Argument from Goodness
Morriston- What is so Good about Moral Freedom?
Heinrich Van Heerden--Morriston-Does Plantinga’s God Have Freedom-Canceling Control Over His Creatures? A Response to Richard Gale Tuesday Oct. 18.
Morriston-Power, liability, and the free-will defense: reply to Mawson
Morriston-The Evidential Argument from Goodness
Morse- The Non-Problem of Free Will in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology
Moser-Natural Evil and The Free Will Defense
Elsie Guerrero--Murphy-Unknowable Worlds: Solving the Problem of Natural Evil Thursday, Oct. 20
Nagasawa-Moral Evil and Human Freedom: A Reply to Tierno
O’Connor-Hasker on Gratuitous Natural Evil
O’Connor-Swinburne on Natural Evil from Natural Processes
O’Keeffe-The Failure of the Free Will Defence
Oppy-Arguments from Moral Evil
Otte-Evidential Arguments from Evil
Pereboom-The Problem of Evil
Phillips-William Hasker’s Avoidance of the Problems
Piper-Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Moral Aporia
Piper-Why Theists Cannot Accept Skeptical Theism
Pockett-The Concept of Free Will: Philosophy, Neuroscience, and the Law
Pruss-A New Free-Will Defence
Rachlin-Free Will from the Viewpoint of Teleological Behaviorism
Readiness Potential
Kia Seehafer-- Rowe-Can God Be Free? thursday, Sept. 22
Rowe-Must God Create the Best World?
Rowe-Skeptical Theism: A Response to Bergmann
Russel-The Problem of Evil: Too Much Suffering
Saulytis--Augustine and the Problem of Evil
Schellenberg-The Atheist’s Free Will Offence
Schnall-Sceptical Theism and Moral Scepticism
Segal-Sceptical Theism and Divine Truths
Sennett-The Inscrutable Evil Defense Against the Inductive Argument from Evil
Short- The Mind Reader
Aaron Brand--Sider-Hell and Vagueness Tuesday, Sept. 27
Silentdave-Skeptical Theism and the Evidential Argument from Evil
Silver-Religious Experience and the Evidential Argument from Evil
Snapper-Paying the Cost of Skeptical Theism
Clay Heyer--Snyder-Transworld Sanctity and Plantinga’s Free Will Defense Thursday Oct 13.
Soon-Unconscious Determinants of Free Decisions in the Human Brain
Steinberg-Leibniz, Creation, and the Best of All Possible Worlds
Stitch-As a Matter of Fact: Empirical Perspectives on Ethics
Stitch-Moral Judgment
Stone-Evidential Atheism
Storbeck-The Affective Regulation of Cognitive Priming
Matt DeStefano--Suhler and Churchland--Control: conscious and otherwise Thursday, Sept. 8
Swinburne-The Existence of God
Tamil and Frith: Feeling Right about Doing Right, Neurobiology
Stephen Foung--Tancredi-The Neuroscience of “Free Will” Thursday, Oct. 27
Tenneson-A Masterpiece of Existential Blasphemy
Tooley-The Argument from Evil
Trakakis-God, Gratuitious Evil, and van Inwagen’s Attempt to Reconcile the Two
Trakakis-The Evidential Problem of Evil
Van Inwagen-Argument from Particular Horrendous Evils
Nishimura--Waller-Perpetrators of Genocide: An Explanatory Model of Extraordinary Human Evil
Wielenberg-A Morally Unsurpassable God Must Create the Best
Wielenberg-Skeptical Theism and Divine Lies
Wynn-Some Innate Foundations of Social and Moral Cognition