SPECIAL DISPROOFS OF GOD
1. DEFINITIONAL DISPROOFS
2. FINITE ATTRIBUTES DISPROOFS
3. "BEYOND HUMAN UNDERSTANDING" DISPROOFS
4. META DISPROOFS
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1. DEFINITIONAL DISPROOFS
J. N. Findlay,
“Can God’s Existence Be Disproved?”
Mind 57 (1948): 176-83
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 19-26
www.ditext.com/findlay/god.html
J. N. Findlay,
“God’s Nonexistence: A Reply to Mr. Rainer and Mr. Hughes,”
Mind 58 (1949): 352-54
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 27-30
www.ditext.com/findlay/god.html
Carl J. Brownson,
"Evil and the Ontological Disproof" (2017)
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3182&context=gc_etds
John L. Pollock,
“Proving the Nonexistence of God,”
Inquiry 9 (1966): 193-96
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 31-34
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00201746608601469
Douglas Walton,
“Can an Ancient Argument of Carneades on Cardinal Virtues and Divine Attributes Be Used to Disprove the Existence of God?”
Philo 2, no. 2 (1999): 5-13
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 35-44
https://philarchive.org/archive/WALCAA-5
James Rachels,
“God and Moral Autonomy,”
in Can Ethics Provide Answers? (1997), pp. 109-23
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Impossibility of God (2003), pp. 45-58
www.infidels.org/library/modern/james_rachels/autonomy.html
Scott F. Aikin,
"The Problem of Worship,"
Think 25 (2010): 101-113
https://as.vanderbilt.edu/philosophy/people/facultyfiles/aikin-problem_of_worship.pdf
Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse,
"The Problem of Worship" and "Defenses of Worship,"
Reasonable Atheism: A Moral Case for Respectful Disbelief (2011), pp. 147-62
Stephen Maitzen,
“Anselmian Atheism,”
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (2005): 225-39
http://philosophy.acadiau.ca/tl_files/sites/philosophy/resources/documents/Maitzen_Anselmian_Atheism.pdf
Einar Duenger Bohn,
"Anselmian Theism and Indefinitely Extensible Perfection,"
Philosophical Quarterly 62 (2012): 671-83
www.jstor.org/stable/41684335
2. FINITE ATTRIBUTES DISPROOFS
H. J. McCloskey,
“Would Any Being Merit Worship?”
Southern Journal of Philosophy 2 (1964): 157-64
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-6962.1964.tb01479.x/abstract
Michael Martin,
“A Disproof of the God of the Common Man,”
Question 7 (1974): 115-24
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 232-41
P. J. McGrath,
“Evil and the Existence of a Finite God,”
Analysis 46 (1986): 63-64
www.jstor.org/stable/3328750
P. J. McGrath,
“Children of a Lesser God? A Reply to Burke and Crisp,”
Analysis 47 (1987): 236-38
www.jstor.org/pss/3328799
Michael Martin,
“The Finite God Theodicy,”
Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (1990), pp. 436-40
https://ia803006.us.archive.org/2/items/Ath3ismAPhilosophic4l/Atheism_%20A%20Philosophical%20Justification%20%28complete%20copy%29%20%28%20PDFDrive.com%20%29.pdf
Peter Hutcheson,
“Omniscience and the Problem of Evil,”
Sophia 31 (1992): 53-8
http://philpapers.org/archive/HUTOAT.pdf
Andrea M. Weisberger,
“The Worshipworthiness of a Finite God,”
Suffering Belief (1999), pp. 92-95
3. "BEYOND HUMAN UNDERSTANDING" DISPROOFS
(i.e., disproofs from skeptical theism)
Willam L. Rowe,
“Skeptical Theism: A Response to Bergmann,”
Nous 35 (2001): 297-303
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 311-18
www.jstor.org/stable/2672008
Jeff Jordan,
“Does Skeptical Theism Lead to Moral Skepticism?”
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72 (2006): 403-17
www.jstor.org/stable/40040931
Mark Piper,
“Why Theists Cannot Accept Skeptical Theism,”
Sophia 47 (2008): 129-48
https://slideheaven.com/why-theists-cannot-accept-skeptical-theism.html
Stephen Maitzen,
“Skeptical Theism and Moral Obligation,”
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 65 (2009): 93-103
http://philosophy.acadiau.ca/tl_files/sites/philosophy/resources/documents/Maitzen_STMO.pdf
Rob Lovering,
“On What God Would Do,”
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 66 (2009): 87-104
https://philpapers.org/archive/LOVOWG-2.pdf
Scott Sehon,
“The Problem of Evil: Skeptical Theism Leads to Moral Paralysis,”
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 67 (2010): 67-80
www.jstor.org/stable/25652862
Erik Wielenberg,
“Sceptical Theism and Divine Lies,”
Religious Studies 46 (2010): 509-23
www.jstor.org/stable/40927262
Trent Dougherty,
“Reconsidering the Parent Analogy: Unfinished Business for Skeptical Theists,”
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 72 (2012): 17-25
www.jstor.org/stable/23258356
Stephen Maitzen,
"The Moral Skepticism Objection to Skeptical Theism,"
J.McBrayer & D.Howard-Snyder (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil (2013), pp. 444-57
http://philosophy.acadiau.ca/tl_files/sites/philosophy/resources/documents/Maitzen_MSO.pdf
David Kyle Johnson,
"A Refutation of Skeptical Theism,"
Sophia 52 (2013): 425-45
www.researchgate.net/publication/257761915_A_Refutation_of_Skeptical_Theism
Stephen Law,
"Sceptical Theism and a Lying God: Wielenberg's Argument Defended and Developed,"
Religious Studies 51 (2015): 91-109
http://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2014/03/defence-and-development-of-erik.html
Erik Wielenberg,
"The Parent-Child Analogy and the Limits of Skeptical Theism,"
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 78 (2015): 301-14
James P. Sterba,
"Skeptical Theism and the Challenge of Atheism,"
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 85 (2019): 173-91
Luis R. G. Oliveira,
"Sceptical Theism and the Paradox of Evil,"
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98 (2020): 319-33
https://philpapers.org/archive/OLISTA-4.pdf
David Kyle Johnson,
"Refuting Skeptical Theism,"
Ch. 8 in J. Loftus (ed.), God and Horrendous Suffering (2021)
www.academia.edu/50205594/Refuting_Skeptical_Theism
4. META DISPROOFS
Michael Martin,
“The Justification of Negative Atheism as a Justification of Positive Atheism,”
Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (1990), pp. 281-84
“An Indirect Inductive Argument from Evil,”
Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (1990), pp. 341-49 and 361
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 319-27
"The Problem of the Theistic Evidentialist Philosophers,"
Philo 13, no. 2 (2010): 185-200
https://philarchive.org/archive/LOVTPO-8
Nicholas Everitt,
“Conclusion,”
The Non-existence of God (2004), pp. 301-06
Michael Martin,
“The Argument from Unanswered Disproofs,”
The Open Society 83, no. 1 (March 2010): 11-12
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gjK2SD2t5L-Dn0wlU1t55AuRJ61Nr_Ka
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