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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