Natalja Deng

Biographic Data

ID2358885
NAMENatalja Deng
GIVEN NAMESNatalja
FAMILY NAMEDeng
SIGNATUREDENG N
AFFILIATIONSYonsei University
ORCID0000-0001-5668-9271
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Is present-bias a distinctive psychological kind

    Open AccessNatalja Deng, Batoul Hodroj et al.ARTICLEInquiry2024

    Present-bias is the preference, all else being equal, for positive events to be located in the present rather than the non-present, and for negative events to be located in the non-present rather than the present.Very little attention has been given to present-bias in the contemporary literature on time biases.This may be because it is often assumed that present-bias is not a distinctive psychological kind; that what explains people's being prese…

  • Do religious fictionalists face a problem of evil

    Open AccessNatalja DengARTICLEReligious Studies2024

    Much of the literature on religious fictionalism has emphasized that religious fictionalists employing a theistic fiction cannot just leave evil out of the fiction, and that on the contrary, they face worries that very closely parallel the worries raised by the problem of evil. This article argues that when religious fictionalism is construed most charitably, these worries do not arise. It explores three fictionalist approaches to evil (Excision,…

  • God and Time

    Open AccessNatalja DengARTICLEPhilosophy Compass2024References: 36

    This article introduces the reader to contemporary philosophical research on God and time, without presupposing any familiarity with either philosophy of religion or philosophy of time. To start with, aspects of the topic are compared to some structurally similar ideas in secular philosophical thought about time and ethics. The article then introduces timeless versus temporal conceptions of eternity and discusses positions intending to combine el…

  • Questions about ‘Internal and external questions about God’

    Open AccessNatalja DengARTICLEReligious Studies2012

    This article is an evaluation of Le Poidevin's use of Carnap's stance on ontology within the philosophy of religion. Le Poidevin claims that (1) theists need to take God to be a putative entity within space-time in order for their claim that God exists to be meaningful, and that (2) instrumentalism about theology is viable. I argue that although Le Poidevin's response to Carnap's argument is no less problematic than that argument itself, his posi…