Author: James P. Sterba
James P. Sterba is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and a Founding Faculty Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He has published twenty-four books, most recently the award-winning Justice for Here and Now (Cambridge, 1998), Three Challenges to Ethics (Oxford, 2001), Terrorism and International Justice (Oxford, 2003), and The Triumph of Practice Over Theory in Ethics (Oxford, 2005.) He is currently working on a book project for Oxford titled Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men: A Debate, co-authored with Warren Farrell, a well-known critic of feminism. Sterba is also a past president of the International Society for Social and Legal Philosophy, the American Section, a past president of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, and a past president of the North American Society for Social Philosophy.
Is a Good God Logically Possible?
I defend atheism in my new book, Is A Good God Logically Possible? (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). But I have not always been an atheist. In fact, I was in a religious order for twelve years, leaving only just before I would have had to take final vows at age twenty-six. And I only …