James P Sterba
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 289895 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James P Sterba |
| NOMBRES | James P |
| APELLIDO | Sterba |
| FIRMA | STERBA J P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4651-7334 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A response to Swinburne’s theodicy
This is a simpler version of the argument that I presented in my debate book with. Richard Swinburne, one that also responds to Swinburne’s recent formulation of his theodicy
On the Logical Argument from Natural Evil
Dwayne Moore’s "A Naturalistic Theodicy for Sterba’s Problem of Natural Evil," (Moore, 2024) provides a detailed critique of my logical argument from evil against the existence of the God of traditional theism. While there have been many critiques of my logical argument against the existence of the God of traditional theism from moral evil to which I have replied (2020b, 2020c, 2021, 2023), there has been only one previous critique that was direc…
God and Purported Logical Arguments from Evil and Suffering
Logical arguments from evil against the existence of God are the strongest form of arguments from evil. They maintain that the all-good, all-powerful God of traditional theism is logically incompatible with the evil in the world. Given that the most well-known logical argument from evil remains the argument put forward by John Mackie over fifty years ago, I begin by setting out Mackie’s argument in detail as well as Alvin Plantinga’s well-regarde…
An Ethics without God That Is Compatible with Darwinian Evolution
Building on my recent argument that an all-good, all-powerful God is logically incompatible with all the evil in the world, I explore what grounding ethics can have without the God of traditional theism. While theists have argued that ethics is grounded either in God's commands and/or in his nature, I show that no such adequate grounding exists, even if my argument-showing that the God of traditional theism is logically incompatible with all the …
Afterthoughts
Is a good god logically possible
Replies
Eliminating the problem of hell
According to Marilyn Adams, hell poses the principal problem of evil for Christians. In this article, I show that the problem of hell can be eliminated, or solved, but not by any of four favoured theistic solutions (i.e. traditional, escapist, annihilationist and universalist) that have been provided. Rather, I argue that there is another theistic solution to the problem of hell, a morally realistic solution, which, by drawing on ethical theory, …
Is a Good God Logically Possible?
A Response to Jan Narveson
I show how Jan Narveson’s critique fails to unseat my central argument that harm cuts both ways in our assumed idealized conflict situations, such that sometimes the poor harm the rich and sometimes the rich harm the poor. I further show how this supports my overall argument that libertarianism has gone over the brink into the waiting arms of welfare liberals and socialists. I also reject the; other reasons that Narveson provides for not recogniz…
From Rationality to Equality
James P. Sterba offers something that philosophers have long sought: an argument showing that morality is rationally required. Furthermore he argues that morality requires substantial equality. Even libertarian perspectives, which would seem to require minimal enforcement of morality, are shown to lead to a requirement of equality.
Three Interrelated Views of Punishment
It is very unusual for books under review to relate to each other as instructively as do these three books on punishment. They truly deserve to be read and reviewed together
What Sen should have said to Rawls
Environmentalism in Popular Culture
Are Liberty and Equality Compatible?
Are the political ideals of liberty and equality compatible? This question is of central and continuing importance in political philosophy, moral philosophy, and welfare economics. In this book, two distinguished philosophers take up the debate. Jan Narveson argues that a political ideal of negative liberty is incompatible with any substantive ideal of equality, while James P. Sterba argues that Narveson's own ideal of negative liberty is compati…
Are Liberty and Equality Compatible?
A Demanding Environmental Ethics for the Future
A Demanding Environmental Ethics for the Future James P. Sterba (bio) As we contemplate the present and future effects of global climate change, it is hard not to be disillusioned by what we see. Melting glaciers, rising sea levels, more intense and erratic weather patterns, wide-scale extinction of endangered species—what can we as environmental philosophers do that might be helpful in this regard? My suggestion is that we respond by drawing on …
Rethinking Global Justice from the Perspective of All Living Nature and What Difference it Makes
I begin this chapter with an account of what is deserved in human ethics, an ethics that assumes without argument that only humans, or rational agents, count morally. I then take up the question of whether nonhuman living beings are also deserving, and I answer it in the affirmative. Having established that all individual living beings, as well as ecosystems, are deserving, I go on to establish what it is that they deserve and then compare the re…
Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge
In recent years the engagement between the environmental 'agenda' and mainstream political theory has become increasingly widespread and profound. Each has affected the other in palpable and important ways, and it makes increasing sense for political theorists in each camp to engage with one another. This book, first published in 2006, draws together the threads of this interconnecting enquiry in order to assess its status and meaning. Andrew Dob…
How to achieve global justice
In this paper, I argue that even a libertarian ideal of liberty, which initially seems opposed to welfare rights, can be seen to require a right to a basic needs minimum that extends to distant peoples and future generations and is conditional upon the poor doing whatever they reasonably can to meet their own basic needs, including bringing their population growth under control. Given that, as I have argued elsewhere, welfare liberal, socialist, …
The Wolf Again in Sheep’s Clothing
David Benatar believes that men in society are discriminated against just because they are men in same way that women in society are dis criminated against just because they are women. He calls this discrimi nation sexism.1 To show that this discrimination exists and deserves to be condemned, Benatar starts with a number of examples. He then seeks to explain and criticize attitudes that he claims under lie these examples and to respond to objecti…
On the Possibility of Grounding a Defense of Ecofeminist Philosophy
It is a pleasure to comment on Karen Warren's excellent book. 1 The book is a treasure trove of discussions in ecofeminist philosophy that I am sure people will be drawing upon for years to come. In the introduction to the book, Warren says that her main goal is to present and defend a particular version of ecofeminist philosophy (xiii). In my brief comments, I want to consider how Warren understands that defense, consider how strong it is, and c…
Gewirth
As one of the most important ethicists to emerge since the Second World War, Alan Gewirth continues to influence philosophical debates concerning morality. In this ground-breaking book, Gewirth's neo-Kantianism, and the communitarian problems discussed, form a dialogue on the foundation of moral theory. Themes of agent-centered constraints, the formal structure of theories, and the relationship between freedom and duty are examined along with suc…
Justice
The only anthology of its kind, this comprehensive work presents classical and contemporary defenses and critiques of the five main conceptions of justice, including communitarian and feminist viewpoints.
Feminist Philosophies
I. BEING A WOMAN: PROBLEMS OF GENDER INEQUALITY. 1. Role Socialization. Claire Renzetti and Daniel Curran, Gender Socialization. Lois Gould, X: A Fabulous Child's Story. 2. Sexuality and Violence. Robert Baker, Pricks and Chicks: A Plea for Persons. Carole J. Sheffield, Sexual Terrorism. Lois Pineau, Date Rape: A Feminist Analysis. Marilyn Frye, Lesbian 3. Reproduction. Angela Y. Davis, Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights. Kay Castongua…
An Ethics without God That Is Compatible with Darwinian Evolution
Building on my recent argument that an all-good, all-powerful God is logically incompatible with all the evil in the world, I explore what grounding ethics can have without the God of traditional theism. While theists have argued that ethics is grounded either in God's commands and/or in his nature, I show that no such adequate grounding exists, even if my argument-showing that the God of traditional theism is logically incompatible with all the …
Retributive Justice
Environmentalism in Popular Culture
A Biocentrist Strikes Back
From Biocentric Individualism to Biocentric Pluralism
Feminist Justice and the Pursuit of Peace
I argue that the achievement of feminist justice is centrally related to the pursuit of peace, so that those who oppose violence in international arenas must, in consistency, oppose violence against women as well. This requires putting an end to the overt violence against women that takes the distinctive form of rape, battering, sexual harassment, and sexual abuse, and to the structural violence that takes the form of inequalities suffered by wom…
Justice as Desert
The decline of Wolff's anarchism
Retributive Justice
Contractual Retributivism Defended
The Welfare Rights of Distant Peoples and Future Generations
The Demands of Justice
How to Complete the Compatibilist Account of Free Action
Social Contract Theory and Ordinary Justice
The Demands of Justice
Recent Work in Political Philosophy
Journal Article Recent Work in Political Philosophy Get access The Demands of Justice. By James P. Sterba. ( Notre Dame U.P., 1980. Pp. xii + 164. Price £6.60) Justice and The Human Good. By William A. Galston. (Chicago: Chicago U.P., 1980. Pp. xii + 324. Price £15.00) A Critique of Freedom and Equality. By John Charvet. (Cambridge: C.U.P., 1981. Pp. viii + 204. Price £17.50) The Pursuit of Inequality. By Philip Green. (Oxford: Martin Robertson, …
Reply to Narveson
Justifying Nuclear Deterrence
A Libertarian Justification for a Welfare State
Between MAD and Counterforce
Reply to Shrage
Just War Theory and Nuclear Strategy
I defend just war theory against pacifist, conventionalist, collectivist and feminist challenges that have been recently directed against it. I go on to apply just war theory to the use and threat to use nuclear weapons concluding that under present conditions the possession but not the threat to use a limited nuclear force is morally justified
Justifying morality
Ethics in the History of Western Philosophy
'...this magnificent collection of presentations of the thought of the giants of Western ethics deserves to become a basic reference work in the field.' Ralph McInerny, The University of Notre Dame
Ethics in the History of Western Philosophy
Reconciling Pacifists and Just War Theorists
Am I My Parents' Keeper? An Essay on Justice Between the Young and the Old
There is a growing perception in the United States that the old and the young are locked in a fierce competition for a critical but scarce resource - public funds for human services. Many feel that the old now receive a disproportionate share of available funds, to the detriment of the very young and of the poor in general. The rapidly increasing numbers of old people make it imperative to face a 'new' question of justice: 'How should social reso…
From Liberty to Welfare
Reconciling Pacifists and Just War Theorists Revisited
Feminist Justice and the Pursuit of Peace
I argue that the achievement of feminist justice is centrally related to the pursuit of peace, so that those who oppose violence in international arenas must, in consistency, oppose violence against women as well. This requires putting an end to the overt violence against women that takes the distinctive form of rape, battering, sexual harassment, and sexual abuse, and to the structural violence that takes the form of inequalities suffered by wom…
Benhabib and Rawls's Hypothetical Contractualism
In Situating the Self Seyla Benhabib addresses the question: what is living and what is dead in universalist moral and political theories?1 Her answer is that what is living is a particular version of communicative ethics. Like Jiirgen Habermas, Benhabib argues that the conditions of an ideal speech situation entail strong ethical assumptions. First, they require that we recognize the right of all beings capable of speech and action to be partici…
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