Paul Draper
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Paul Draper is an American philosopher of religion known for his influential work on the problem of evil and evidential arguments against theism.
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| Paul Draper canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Draper Context triple: [William Lane Craig, hasDebated, Paul Draper]
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Adam Davenport
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Jeremy Spenser
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Alex Vause
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Rob Mitchell
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Cam Avery
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Draper Target entity description: Paul Draper is an American philosopher of religion known for his influential work on the problem of evil and evidential arguments against theism.
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A.
Adam Davenport
Adam Davenport is a bionic teenager with super strength and limited intelligence from the Disney XD series "Lab Rats."
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B.
Jeremy Spenser
Jeremy Spenser is a British actor best known for his film and stage work in the 1950s and 1960s, including notable roles in classic British cinema.
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C.
Alex Vause
Alex Vause is a central character in the television series "Orange Is the New Black," known as a sharp-witted, morally ambiguous drug smuggler and the on-and-off love interest of Piper Chapman.
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D.
Rob Mitchell
Rob Mitchell was a British music executive best known as a co-founder of the influential electronic music label Warp Records.
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E.
Cam Avery
Cam Avery is an Australian musician and multi-instrumentalist best known as a touring member of the psychedelic music project Tame Impala and as a member of the band Pond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American philosopher
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person ⓘ philosopher ⓘ philosopher of religion ⓘ |
| areaOfDebate |
existence of God
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problem of evil ⓘ rationality of theism ⓘ religious epistemology ⓘ skeptical theism ⓘ |
| century |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| field |
epistemology of religion
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philosophy of religion ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
philosophy
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religious studies ⓘ |
| hasNotability |
arguments against theism based on empirical evidence
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contributions to contemporary philosophy of religion ⓘ problem of evil scholarship ⓘ |
| hasView |
religious belief should be evaluated using the tools of analytic philosophy
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skeptical theism can undercut certain evidential arguments from evil ⓘ the facts about pain and pleasure are evidence favoring naturalism over theism ⓘ the problem of evil is primarily evidential rather than logical ⓘ theism and naturalism should be compared using Bayesian confirmation theory ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bayesian approaches to arguments about God
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analytic philosophy of religion ⓘ contemporary debates on the evidential problem of evil ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Bayesian approaches to theism and naturalism
NERFINISHED
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defense of skeptical theism ⓘ evidential arguments from evil against theism ⓘ hypothesis of indifference ⓘ pain and pleasure evidential argument from evil ⓘ work on religious epistemology ⓘ work on the problem of evil ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
Bayesian comparison of theism and naturalism
NERFINISHED
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evidential argument from pain and pleasure ⓘ hypothesis of indifference ⓘ |
| occupation |
philosopher
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university professor ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | analytic philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousStance | non-theist ⓘ |
| writesIn | English ⓘ |
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